Inspiration for your marriage

Marriage Preparation:

Our Pre-marriage Program assists individual couples to become more aware of one another's expectations, thoughts, plans and beliefs regarding marriage.

Available:

• Couple Courses
• Individual Couple Preparation
  Covers:
  • Marriage Expectations
  • Communication
  • Conflict Resolution
  • Financial Management
  • Parenting
  • Family & Friends
  • Spirituality
  • Leisure
  • Family of Origin

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Marriage Mentoring:

Support for Newlyweds

In our Mentoring Program, Newlywed couples are connected to a couple who have been married more than 7 years and who have built a successful marriage relationship. Newlywed couples are supported by their Mentor Couple through the first 12 - 18mths of their marriage while adjusting to married life, setting and working toward goals for their marriage.

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Marriage Enrichment

The best time to build into a marriage relationship is when the relationship is not under the pressure of conflict.

• Courses
• Seminars
• Retreats
• Couple Nights

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Resources

Recommended Reading

Secrets To Lasting Love
By Dr Gary Smalley
Includes great communication techniques and builds better understanding for resolving conflict.

Saving Your Marriage Before It Starts
By Dr Les & Leslie Parrott
Includes great communication and conflict resolution skills and techniques. Workbook can also be purchased to use in conjunction with the main book. This book is great for any couple that want to build into their marriage.

Celebration of Sex
By Dr Douglas Rosenau
This book is written to better assist couples in sexual technique. Some suggestions may be a personal choice, however a great tool for building into a couples sex life.

A Celebration of Sex After 50
By Dr Douglas Rosenau
Written to address changes in the body associated with age can which affect a couples approach to sex. Includes some great suggestions to maintain a healthy satisfying sex life in marriage during the course of aging. Some suggestions may be a personal choice, however a great tool for building into a couples sex life.

Boundaries in Marriage
By Dr Henry Cloud & Dr John Townsend
Helps couples develop skills in building and maintaining healthy boundaries in marriage.

Personality Plus
By Florance Littauer
Great book for building understanding about yourself, how you're wired and especially in understanding other people in your life.

Temperaments
By Dr Tim LaHaye
Great book for building understanding about yourself, how you're wired especially in understanding your spouse.

The Five Love Languages
By Gary Chapman
How to express your heartfelt commitment to your mate, and understand various love styles.

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Links

• MAREAA (Marriage And Relationship Educators Association of Australia)
• Prepare/Enrich
• Dr Gary Smalley (Smalley online)
• Marriage Partnership