We recently talked about Marriage Encounter on our program and got an email from a listener who didn’t find it too helpful:<\/p>\n

I was listening to your topic on Marriage Encounter.<\/p>\n

For my wife and I it was not so good experience<\/p>\n

We were married in a Lutheran church in the 80\u2019s. My wife was Catholic I was Lutheran<\/p>\n

About 3\u00a0 years ago\u00a0 after being married for 20 +\u00a0 years, I decided to explore becoming Catholic.<\/p>\n

As part of this, the Pastor in our church said we needed to go to a Marriage Encounter weekend. He did allow me to skip the NFP classes however(in retrospect I would have rather attended a NFPM seminar than WWME).<\/p>\n

The Encounter was in a not so nice part of town.\u00a0 All of the Counselors read from papers which seemed as though they were scripted. It was a pretty \u201ccheesy\u201d program to say the least.<\/p>\n

My wife felt it caused more problems than it helped. She also felt it may have causes a couple separation for some of the attendees.<\/p>\n

In the end we felt as though we were at a Timeshare Presentation and were being squeezed for money\u2026<\/p>\n

I finished RCIA and we were \u201cmarried\u201d at the Easter Vigil.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I have become closer to God by becoming Catholic and I wished I would have done so long ago.<\/p>\n

I have continued to educate myself in the Catholic faith by reading, prayer and\u00a0 listening to every Catholic podcast I can find.<\/p>\n

I certainly would not recommend our local chapter of WWME to anyone in our area.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Have you ever attended Marriage Encounter?\u00a0 Did you have a similar experience or was it a good one for you?<\/p>\n

We’ve heard incredibly good things about Retrouvaille<\/a>, in case you or someone you know has been struggling in their marriage.<\/p>\n

Personally, we’ve never attended either, but I always have high hopes for these kinds of things.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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