A marriage the lasts forever begins with engaged couples adjusting expectations to the realities of married living, one another's style & needs, and a biblical standard.
A marriage that lasts forever refocuses on how to more effectively communicate, resolve conflict, meet each other’s needs and convey unconditional love & respect.
Mentors help a couple learn such skills!
A trained Christian couple administers a marriage inventory to any couple wanting to enrich or strengthen their marriage. The inventory identifies issues from five basic categories on which the couple needs work. Increased understanding and communication about those issues is facilitated by the mentor couple.
Any couple who feels their marriage is “stalled”, headed the wrong way, or somewhat at risk. Also, any couple who describes their marriage as a “decent” one, yet recognizes it needs strengthened or enriched. EVERY other couple out there desiring to take their marriage from fair to good or good to great!
Your assessment session with Director Paul Spasic might indicate that you are in a crisis mode such that either or both of you are considering divorce or perhaps have already taken that step. Should that be the case, Paul will do one of two things:
Paul relies on his own masters level counseling training and his dozen (plus) years of experience as Director of this program to make the determination as to which of these two routes to send you.
Marriage Mentors does a thorough training equipping mentor couples to utilize the REFOCCUS marriage inventory tool with the mentee couple. The two couples meet about half a dozen times for 90 minutes each session. In each session they concentrate on one of five categories of issues:
A sixth category focuses on couples heavily involved in ministry. A seventh category is for empty nesters. They meet in either of their homes weekly, every two weeks, or monthly. The objective is to provide the awareness, support, and inspiration for the mentee couple to take their marriage relationship to the next level of adjustment, fulfillment, or purpose.