Retrouvaille vs Counseling

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Dis, the follow up sessions, not to sure about, as to where you can do them...It might be good to stay close that way you are with the same people you were on the weekend with, it might make things alittle easier, also I can see that friendships will be built through this weekend! I would talk to the organizers to see what they suggest.

Dave: the weekend starts off on the Friday night, where you are greeted by people who have done the weekend before, they bring your bags to your room, and try to make you feel comfortable.
You are then off and running.
Each of the 3 presenting couples take turns in doing presentations, each couple through out the weekend will talk about different topics in relationships, and relates that to their own experiences, nothing is held back, they talk very openly about there own experiences and all that was involved.
The whole purpose of the weekend is for us to learn to talk, and be able to talk about our feelings, at then end of each session we are given a question to answer.
One of the spouses are sent to the hotel room, the other stays in the meeting room...we are then given time to write our response, at then end of that time the spouse come up to the hotel room, we exchange our books and read what the other has written, once we have done that we talk about it.
In doing it this way it removes any confrontation, it never felt threatening, from the beginning it felt very safe, and it seems to promote really honesty...at no point did I doubt my H responses, he was totally open.
There are post sessions that they really stress to attend, by then end of the weekend there was no doubt that we would go, we want to continue this learning and work.
I think that there were alot of skeptics, some even said they had been, didn't really think anything could work...you could also here the change in people and the questions they asked, at the start of the weekend you could hear that people were truly feeling hopeless, but by the end there was alot of hope!
You have to go to truly understand, there is alot that goes on, and it is all positive.