Lasting Connection™ Retreats

If you’re newly married, you may be concerned about repeating the same mistakes you were exposed to growing up. If your parents divorced, you might worry you lack the skills to maintain a healthy long-term relationship. Even though you love your partner, you may fear commitment or doubt that you have what it takes to go the distance.

Are you in a committed relationship and want to build a solid foundation with your partner? Have you witnessed relationships around you fail? Do you worry the same may happen to you? Or, if you’re a new couple, are you hoping to get your relationship on track as you learn how to navigate conflict?

Perhaps you and your partner have only been living together for a few months—or maybe it’s already been a couple of years—and you’re planning marriage, kids, or both in the future. Before taking this step, however, you want to establish a strong foundation that will withstand the inevitable ups and downs of life. Or maybe you’ve already had a previous relationship fail and don’t want to repeat the same mistakes.

Although you and your partner have a great relationship most of the time, you may occasionally have arguments or feel disconnected from each other. When these flare-ups occur, you may question your compatibility with one another.

Even though you resolve to do better next time, you may notice the same patterns arising again and again. Because you fear your dynamic will only get worse if it isn’t dealt with proactively, you want to find a solution to your miscommunication sooner than later.

Fortunately,  Lasting Connection Retreats™ are expressly designed for newer couples who are interested in building a great relationship with each other. At this group couples counselling retreat, you will learn effective communication strategies as well as how to resolve conflict and explore intimacy.

Even though we may think it doesn’t take hard work to sustain a relationship, it does. We see the evidence everywhere—most of us know someone who has either struggled in their partnership, broken up, or divorced. Naturally, we want to avoid that pain and do better in our own relationship.

Unfortunately, most of us were never taught how to cultivate a deep and enriching emotional relationship with our partners. Even though we have committed to being together, this promise to each other doesn’t come with a guarantee of success. Even though we may question whether we can sustain a long-term relationship, most of us simply cross our fingers that things will work out instead of taking action.

When all is generally well in our relationship, it may seem unnecessary to sign up for premarital (or pre-engagement) couples counselling. If our relationship has more positives than negatives, we figure those positives will help us overcome any future problems down the road.

But it turns out that waiting for problems to arise in a relationship before taking action isn’t a sound strategy. It may take a while, but over time we will grow apart from our partner if we don’t iron out the wrinkles in the relationship early on. Furthermore, research shows that couples who attended couples counselling before marriage had a 30 percent higher marital success rate than those who did not.^[1]

Taking the proactive approach can pay dividends for your future relationship. Lasting Connection Retreats™ move you beyond the tangibles of furniture and finances and take you on a deep dive into communication and sex, bonding and connection, conflict and repair.

[1] https://healthresearchfunding.org/20-significant-premarital-counseling-statistics/