Marriage Recovery Course

[mistymeanour]

We can't afford marriage counselling atm but noticed that a local church runs this course (alphacourse Cof E church) which we can afford. We need to reconnect/get back spark after a terrible few years. Is it very religious (prayers at it etc?) any use? Should I just get a book?. If anyone has any experience of it I would be really grateful, so that I can present it to my partner.

Hi

I've done the course and it's great...it's not terribly religious there are usually short prayers at the end of the session but they are always introduced with a line such as "some of you might like to join or simply reflect on something you've considered this session." Although I am a Christian my husband isn't and also my friend has recently been on this course and both her and husband are very definite atheists and they were not bothered at all by the prayers or felt compelled/uncomfortable etc ..I'd give it a go we found it very useful.

Thanks a lot for your reply. I'm glad you found the course useful. My H is very reticent to seek help and needs to know lots of information about things before he will commit so I just wanted to know as much about it as possible.

My H was quite anxious and a bit hesitant but mainly because he thought it might involve sharing personal details with others. Which is not what the course is about. It's set in a "date-night" like environment, so you sit at a table for two and there's usually candles and flowers. You work through a series of exercises on different topic each week after presentations from the leaders. You only talk to each other unless you ask one of the support couples to help you with a difficult issue...I hope you can encourage him to give it a go, it's really worth a try.