MARRIAGE RESOURCES
WEEKEND GETAWAY
Focus on the Family offers all-inclusive weekend getaways at secluded retreat centers in Branson, Missouri and Greenville, Michigan. They include high-quality lodging, meals and retreat materials with counselor-led facilitation. The getaway theme selections are:
Taking your Marriage to Great: Reconnecting with yourself, your spouse and God.
Speaking from the Heart: Succeeding at emotional communication.
Empowered to Love: Restore your soul; reconnect as a couple.
Intimacy as God Intended: Enhance emotional and sexual intimacy.
HOPE RESTORED INTENSIVES
Focus on the Family’s multi-day counseling intensives in Branson, Missouri provide couples with personalized, biblically based support. Whatever you’re going through— infidelity, intimacy issues, communication breakdowns, etc.— you and your spouse can get started on a path toward healing. Our licensed Christian counselors are trained to work with couples with deep hurts and long-term problems.
LOVING WELL
How can you celebrate and strengthen your marriage? The “Loving Well” podcast provides heartwarming love stories and marriage advice you can put into everyday practice. This series encourages couples to put Christ’s love at the center of their marriage. Along the way, marriage experts Dr. Greg and Erin Smalley teach spouses how to respect and cherish each other and how to honor God in their most important relationship.
WEEKEND TO REMEMBER
A getaway with a goal: oneness.
No marriage is static. Each day, each choice — you’re either moving closer together, toward oneness … or coasting farther apart.
At the intersection of a faith-based marriage conference and romantic retreat from everyday life, Weekend to Remember helps couples do just that — choose oneness. Whether you’re sending up an SOS for marital rescue or looking to foster an already flourishing connection, Weekend to Remember is your best next step toward being, and staying, one. These getaways put on by FamilyLife are hosted throughout the US throughout the year.
RECOMMENDED BOOKS
The Five Love Languages by Gary Chapman
Love and Respect by Dr. Emerson Eggerichs
The Meaning of Marriage by Timothy Keller
The Mingling of Souls by Matt Chandler
Sacred Marriage by Gary Thomas
You and Me Forever by Francis and Lisa Chan