A Private Couples Counseling Retreat
For Married Couples Traveling From Virginia

You meet a stranger. You fall in love. And then you take the vows to spend the rest of your lives together.
Happily ever after! That’s the dream, right?

But more often than not, this dream starts turning into a nightmare. Okay, nightmare maybe a bit of a stretch, but problems of various different kinds definitely start to surface in the heaven after some time. Accepting each other’s vulnerabilities, getting through those tough conversations and then dealing with the resentment that follows becomes a part of your daily routine.

If all this sounds familiar, please don’t turn a blind eye! Seek the help you need in this hour of crisis. Finding a professional marriage counseling retreat will not only help you get some perspective, but will also allow you to work with various sets of tools and methods to fix the foundations of your marriage in the most effective and invigorating way possible. Here’s why you should consider it –

You Get Some Enriching New Perspectives

It’s very difficult to grasp what’s really going on in your marriage when you are at each other’s throats most of the time. Your ability to perceive what’s what might get clouded by your strong emotions, egos, insecurities or bouts of agitation. In such a scenario working with a professional counselor can bring in the essential perspectives the two of you need to understand your specific situation with better clarity and maturity.

The counselor acts as a pair of fresh eyes to observe your relationship in order to help you understand the core of your issues. Besides objectively observing and analyzing your situation, the counselors are professionally trained to help couples like yourselves. Different couples come with different kinds of problems to them and they have the necessary training and expertise to deal with all these complications.

In all probability, your counselor must’ve seen and dealt with couples who have had similar dilemmas that you two are facing at the moment. The counselor will use that experience to assist you in your situation in a systematic but effortless manner.

A Weekend Marriage Retreat Will Remain Unbiased

When there is an apparent disconnect between a couple, it is only natural for them to seek advice from outsiders. You might approach your best friend and he/she might start discussing things with his/her parents. But no matter who you pick to have these conversations with, there will be biases involved. Plus, since you choose people who are intimately close to you, your partner tends to feel uncomfortable. They’ll dread that their image will get spoiled in the eyes of your loved ones. So, seeking advice from outside is never a great idea.

On the other hand, attending a couples therapy retreat will always remain objective and unbiased. Since neither of you is related to the counselor in any way, both of you will feel safe while opening up to sensitive issues related to your marriage. Also, it’s somehow easier to open up to a counselor and discuss all the problems you are facing as a couple than to open up to a close friend or a family member. The professional’s unbiased guidance will eventually encourage both of you to participate more actively in the entire process.

A Marriage Saving Retreat Will Offer You Effective Tools and Techniques

Every great counselor makes sure that you are working on your relationship, not just while you are in counseling, but also, while you are at home or at your individual workplaces. Their job is to offer you tools and techniques which can be employed to harness constant growth on an everyday basis. 

Whatever approach your counselor appoints in your case, you end up with some really amazing tips and tricks to rekindle your romance. You learn how to communicate with each other better and how to understand your partner’s needs. These gems of wisdom will help you in your relationship even after the issues have been resolved.

A Couples Therapy Retreat is Safe Place with No One Judging You

The best part about going to a weekend counseling retreat intensive is that no matter what you shared there, it will never be taken outside. It stays right there! When you are in a counselor’s office, you get to say whatever you want, in a respectful and safe environment. You can simply pour your heart out without worrying about anyone’s judgments or prejudices.

Counselors never criticize you and they encourage you to speak without hesitation of any kind. When you start sharing your deep feelings in a supportive and safe environment, a sense of ease comes back to your relationship. There will be some basic ground rules that you will be expected to follow while communicating, but the focus of the entire process will be towards nurturing a healthy, more understanding relationship.

Conclusion

When you took those vows, you meant them with all your heart, right? Do you remember the words, “for better, for worse, in sickness and in health.”

Now, when the time to actually prove them has arrived, you can’t simply give up! But there is no point to keep living in a hostile and unpleasant environment all your life, either. So, you have to try to make things better. And with the help of a skilled marriage counselor, you can indeed make things better.

They are not going to judge you or point fingers at any of you or make you feel that something went really wrong. They will simply assist you in understanding the situation with a more open mind. And then they’ll help you reconnect with each other with a new sense of joy, love and mutual respect.

You owe it to your and your partner’s peace of mind to give this a go. If your relationship needs some repair work, don’t hesitate! Attend a marriage saving retreat and rediscover what you’ve lost.