Marriage Encounter

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Marriage Encounter

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Is Marriage Encounter For You?

• It is for any married couple
• desiring to strengthen their relationship by
  deepening their love and understanding for each
  other.
• Today, more than two million
• couples in countries around the
• world have experienced the
• beauty and gift of a Marriage
• Encounter Weekend.

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What Is Marriage Encounter?

• A "Marriage Encounter" is a
• weekend away from
• home, family, and responsibilities.
• In a comfortable,
• distraction-free environment
• couple is guided in the discovery of
• new techniques of communicating
• and sharing with one another.

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What Is Marriage Encounter?

• It is not a retreat or seminar,
• but a program designed to give-couples the
  Opportunity examine their,
• lives together,
• strengths and weaknesses,
• attitudes toward each other.

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What Is Marriage Encounter?

• It is a positive and affirming weekend.
• Couples share privately,
• with their spouse and
• do not share any aspect of their marriage with
  the group.

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About The Weekend.

• The weekend is presented by a team of trained lay
  couples and a pastoral couple,
• who have all experienced the weekend themselves.
• These couples share their own experiences, and
  deal with
• issues important
• to all marriages.

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About The Weekend.

• The weekend begins on Friday
• evening and ends on
• Sunday afternoon.

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What Does The Weekend Cost?

• A 45 -non-refundable registration fee confirms
• your food and, lodging at a local hotel or
  re-treat center.
• Costs are explained during
• the weekend
• where couples are asked
• to make a donation to cover
• weekend expenses.

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What Does The Weekend Cost?

• Although our weekends
• are financed solely through
• these donations,
• No one is ever denied
• a weekend due to lack of funds.

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What Others Have To Say

• Marriage Encounter gave Shirley and I
• the opportunity to occasion the deepest, most
  intimate exchange of feelings we had known in 20
  years. It proved to be one of the highlights of
  my life.
• "I just wish that everyone who trusts my opinion
  now accept this advice
• and attend a Marriage Encounter
• weekend at the earliest
• opportunity.
• James C. Dobson,. Ph.D.

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What Others Have To Say

• Here is what other participants have had to say
  about the Marriage Encounter weekend
• The weekend rekindled some of the old romantic
  feelings
• that we had in our courtship and
• early on in our relationship, before
• career and children.

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What Others Have To Say

• "We had time to talk about the way we really felt
  inside, we began to build up a trust and a love
  that bad been there, but, had. slipped away.
• "Before our weekend,. there 'were many areas in
  our life that we didn't dare talk about. Our
  weekend taught us ways to these areas without
  fear of getting into an argument or hurting each
  other.
• Ill tell my friends that the
• Marriage Encounter weekend can
• Not only change their marriage
• but the rest of their life!

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