Adventures in Marriage

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Join us for Adventures in Marriage, a highly interactive marriage enrichment program for married couples of all ages that provides practical skills for healthy, happy, and successful relationships! We are glad to welcome guest speakers Melissa and Mark Perez.

Cost per couple is $75.

Guest Speakers: Mark and Melissa Perez

Mellissa and Mark will focus on categories of healthy communication tools and skills in marriage.  They will examine skills of active listening, speaking heart to heart, and daily communication tools.  Melissa and Mark will teach, then model, and give couples time with each other to practice a number of these tools and sills that foster deeper connection, understanding, and flourishing in marriage.

Schedule:

Friday April 4: 7:00pm-9:00pm

Saturday April 5: 8:30am-12:30pm

Sunday April 6: 8:30am-10:30am

Speaker Bio:

Mark and Melissa Perez were once High School sweethearts who rekindled their love for one another at their 10-year High School reunion. Quickly realizing the need for healthy communication within their marriage, Mark and Melissa sought the help of Live the Life, a non-profit that teaches healthy conflict resolution skills. They have shared their gained knowledge as mentor coaches for engaged and married couples using this amazing curriculum for the past 20 years. Mark has had an exemplary career in law enforcement for 30 years, while Melissa is currently an event coordinator and speaker for the John Paul II Healing Center. They have been married for 24 years and live in Tallahassee, Florida along with their two young adult children.

Detailed Description:

Most couples do not know “how” to be married. Adventures in Marriage helps couples discover better ways to meet one another’s needs, communicate, resolve conflicts, express anger, avoid dirty fighting, and understand how their personality styles impact relationships for better or worse. Fun, practical, and easy to learn, Adventures in Marriage is appropriate for couples at any age or stage. The program is designed to reach couples across the spectrum – from happy and highly motivated to struggling and highly stressed.

Adventures in Marriage combines Christian principles with the latest research to provide specific, practical, attainable skills for a successful marriage. Come learn how to create the marriage you have always wanted with the spouse you already have!

Some of the benefits from Adventures in Marriage include:

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• Recognize when your communication style is more of a problem than the actual problem you are facing
• Develop the ability to feel genuine empathy for your partner instead of secret resentment
• Express yourself clearly so that your thoughts and feelings can be recognized and understood without causing your spouse to feel defensive, resentful, overwhelmed, manipulated or inadequate
• Avoid the mind reading that so often leads to misunderstanding between couples, and learn to avoid assumptions
• Express and accept anger without destroying love
• Fight in such a way that you resolve the issues at hand and actually feel closer to your spouse
• Acknowledge and enjoy the differences between you and your spouse, rather than seeing him/her as a threat
• Understand what went wrong in previous relationships or what is going wrong now

Adventures in Marriage is co-authored by Richard Albertson, Founding President of Live the Life and the late Dr. Lori H. Gordon, one of the leading pioneers in the national marriage education field.