In 1999 I first offered a weekend workshop for marriages in crisis. Someone asked if I thought we could really change a marriage in just three days. I replied confidently that we could. And, by the grace of God, we have.
That’s not to say that some couples don’t need more help after our turnaround weekend. Many do. However, for nearly ten years now we’ve seen one remarkable, nearly unbelievable turn around after another. We’ve seen about everything you can imagine:
- Wives pregnant with their lover’s baby
- People texting their paramours during the breaks — theycome to the workshop just to get someone off their backs and with the full intention of divorcing their spouses and marrying their lovers
- Couples who fight constantly about nearly everything and no longer want to be in the same house, much less the same marriage
- Addicts of every stripe and kind — porn, drugs, alcohol, you name it
- Marriages negatively affected by step-children or in-laws
- Couples where at least one of them is extremely sexually frustrated
- People who have very different ideas about where their lives should be headed or what they really want from the marriage
- One spouse who is convinced that s/he will never again be able to trust the other
- Etc. Etc. Etc.
In those situations and many more we’ve seen the same success rate. Three of every four couples turn their marriage around in that one weekend workshop and find their way to staying married — happily!
The amazing thing is that the workshop has just as much success for those that don’t want to be there as for those who do. If someone comes because a minister, parent, child, friend, boss, or whatever twisted their arms to come, it works just as effectively.
So, if somone you love has a marraige in crisis, send them to us. Twist their arms if you have to. It may just be the last possible means to saving a marriage that will otherwise end. (Oh, by the way, if you’ve sent someone to it or have come yourself, please put add your comments to this blog.)
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