Couples sharing their experience and talking about their struggles can help a hurting couple to look beyond just their pain to rediscover each other again. The primary goal of the ministry is to provide help for couples who live in the disappointment and pain of a marriage in trouble. The weekend helps couples communicate and to gain an awareness of themselves and of their relationship. The post-weekend phase of the Retrouvaille program is as critical to a troubled marriage as the initial weekend experience. The degree of disappointment, hurt, deterioration and despair in hurting marriages cannot be healed in one weekend.
Restoration takes time.
The post-weekend provides a support group as couples discuss concepts of the importance of listening and intimacy. At a time when extended families, neighborhood groups and positive parish communities are limited the couples can at least find support from this source. Return to the top of the page. We came to Retrouvaille thinking nothing would work, but it was the first time we really faced our problem as a couple and began to work on our marriage together. It has given us a better understanding of each other and the maturity to talk things out instead of just fighting.