Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Marriage Retreats

By Carl Wiley


A marriage retreat is a type of retreat that focuses on marriages and how to improve them. These retreats often help couples enhance how they communicate with each other, how they collaborate and how they solve problems together. Retreats not only give a person or a couple a sense of oneness and counseling but it is also an opportunity to unwind from the business of work and home and from the fast pace of normal life where it's often hard to slow down and sit and talk about issues of intimacy and marriage.

A typical marriage retreat is led by a professional such as a marriage counselor or a professional therapist who has the best ability to help determine and analyze any problems and issues that exist within a couple's marriage. The marriage therapy usually lasts from 2-7 days, enough time that the couple has really had the opportunity to spend quality time together. There are also personalized therapies offered to address overt problems directly such as infidelity. This personalized retreat can sometimes act as a counterbalance for the married couple, giving them a chance to forgive each other. Retreats should be a positive, rewarding and fulfilling experience for couples and should help get their marriage back on track.

One of the skills constantly being focused on at marriage retreats is communication. Retreats are designed to help couples learn to express themselves in a collected, positive, non-destructive manner. During marriage retreats, a couple can resolve their own personal and mutual issues, talk about their personal differences and how they can work it.

Couple Games - Games are being introduced to help the couple communicate better. As the retreat progresses, later games rely on skills learned in previous games as a means of positive reinforcement. Challenge courses - This promotes communication, self-determination and teamwork. The aim of this course is to encourage the couple to face a difficulty - physically or emotionally - and overcome them both as individuals and a couple.

Counseling - Counseling is done in a safe setting where the couple can openly discuss any dilemma or their marriage in general.

To maintain a healthy relationship is very important for every individual as it directly affects on your personal life. The main purpose of marriage is to help and support each other through sadness and happiness. After few years of marriage, there might be some misunderstandings and bitterness among the couples which may give rise to conflicts and your married life may become stressful.

It becomes impossible for a couple to live with each other and they start thinking to get separated. However, before taking a final decision, the couple should try to save their relationships as it is quite difficult and boring to live alone. There are several ways to save marriage that may work. When you realize that your married life is in danger, you start looking for the options to save your marriage. First of all, many couples talk with each other and try to understand the problem. It is the best option to look for the solutions by mutual understanding. The couple should express an intense passion for each other because if you are successful in developing love for each other, then other problems can be immediately solved.

If it doesn't work and the conflicts continue, then they try some other options. Some couples seek out an advice from the friends, family or religious leaders. But the couple should think over this advice whether it is appropriate or not as wrong advice can destroy the relationships. Many couples prefer to participate in the marital counseling which may be one of the effective ways to save marriage. Both the partners should attend the counseling which can be an effective tool to improve their relationships. The couples should openly discuss about their marriage problems to get an appropriate solution. Marriage counseling can help the couples to improve their communication skills.




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