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Posted: June 04 2013 at 10:16am | IP Logged Quote kristinannie
Has anyone done one of the Marriage Encounter weekends? What did you think of it?

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Posted: June 04 2013 at 11:11am | IP Logged Quote JennGM
I have not done Marriage Encounter, but I have a few other resources to recommend:

Family Enrichment. My husband and I attended a seminar and were really impressed by the speakers and want to do more. There are two marriage talks on this page which I think were from the seminar we attended. Very good!

Our parish recently hosted this couple from Alexander House. They are solidly Catholic and really help couples!

Finally, locally we are blessed to have Dr. Patrick DiVietri...and on his Family Life Institute site there is wonderful material.

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Posted: June 04 2013 at 11:24am | IP Logged Quote MaryM
We have not, so I can't speak about them from personal experience. But we have many friends who have gone on the Marriage Encounter weekends and a few who got really involved as team couples. I think the ME program is beneficial and helps marriages, especially with getting on track with communitcations and faith. Generally it is not geared to marriages that are facing more serious challenges though. There is a specific retreat program for marriages that are in more of crisis in the relationship. That is called Retroville. Those retreats aren't as widely distributed or frequent as the Marriage Encounter program. I have heard amazing stories about both Retroville and the Alexander House which Jenn linked above - for helping couples who are facing more serious marriage problems.

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