Marriage Counseling

Why You Should Consider A Marriage Counseling Retreat Before Divorce

By Mary Ellen Goggin / December 26, 2019

When you look at the most common reasons for which couples divorce, it’s sad to think that divorce is the result. Did the couples even try to save their marriages? Did they even know how to try? And if they had attended a marriage counseling retreat before divorce, would they still be married today? Every…

How To Communicate With Your Spouse After An Affair

By Mary Ellen Goggin / November 29, 2019

The revelation of infidelity, whether by disclosure or discovery, is a life-shattering event. It can elicit emotions and reactions you never thought you were capable of. And talking about the affair might be paralyzing to you both. The irony of the topic “communication after an affair” is that marriages vulnerable to infidelity are often characterized…

5 Reasons You Should Consider A Marriage Retreat After An Affair

By Mary Ellen Goggin / November 18, 2019

Reasons for considering a marriage retreat after an affair link up with the relationship deficits that led up to infidelity in the first place. People don’t always understand how they got into such a mess. To say that more accurately, they rarely understand how or why they created the disaster in which they’ve landed. Infidelity…

7 Tips On How To Fix An Unhappy Marriage & Make It Better

By Mary Ellen Goggin / October 28, 2019

You know in your mind that marriage won’t always be wedding-day bliss. But it’s all but impossible to prepare your heart for the day when you may have to learn how to fix an unhappy marriage and make it better. You know love goes through predictable stages. You know the strain children put on time…

7 Things You Need To Know Before Attending A Marriage Retreat Intensive Weekend

By Mary Ellen Goggin / August 28, 2019

You can wait for your marriage to be on the outs before working on it. Or you can be proactive and work to keep it growing and evolving. Luckily, there is no shortage of help available from traditional weekly therapy to a marriage retreat intensive weekend. How you go about working on your marriage might…

How Is Marriage Retreat Counseling Different From Couples Counseling?

By Mary Ellen Goggin / July 31, 2019

Let’s be real. Going to couples counseling probably didn’t make your top-5 bucket list for things to do this year. And marriage retreat counseling, if you’ve never gone before, probably didn’t even blip your radar. By the time the “c” word enters into most relationships, a lot of muddy water has flowed under the bridge.…

What Happens At A Marriage Retreat

By Mary Ellen Goggin / June 10, 2019

By the time a married couple considers therapy, the spouses are usually trying to save or repair their marriage. Couples therapy is often the first outreach, in part because its format is familiar to most people. One hour a week for several months (maybe years), a comfortable office with couches and chairs, a therapist with…

What To Look For In A Marriage Retreat For Infidelity

By Mary Ellen Goggin / February 21, 2019

When your marriage hangs in the balance because of an infidelity, trying to save it can be overwhelming. A marriage retreat for infidelity is a unique way to focus on your marriage with therapists who specialize in your experience. In the world of therapy, there is so much to choose from. So many modalities, so…