You may wish to reprint the sections for couple dialog from the Presentation Helps on separate handout sheets. Leave space between the numbered items for couples to write their responses before sharing them verbally with each other. A marital care group is several couples who make a commitment to meet periodically for the specific purposes of continuing to learn about God's plan for marriage, enjoying caring fellowship and support, working on common marital issues, and experiencing deeper levels of intimacy within their marriages. Couples need other couples . The encouragement given them through association and interaction with other marrieds provides an affirmation of their own coupleness, helps a couple stay in touch with reality, and helps meet their need for fellowship with others like themselves.
Couples can help couples .
In the marital care group, couples experience an environment of trust and acceptance that enables them to examine their own behavior and marital interaction, to observe others and to try alternate ways of relating in order to meet the various needs of their relationship. Couples have strengths on which they can build . This support gives the couple freedom and opportunity to build on what they have and to find new areas in which to grow together. Participation Participation in the group is open to couples who are committed to growth in their relationship. Couples who have experienced a marriage strengthening program of some type will likely find that the marital care group helps them practice, refine and reinforce skills they have begun to use.