You may feel a groundswell of hope following a weekend or at least feel like there is progress in the act of saving your marriage. The weekend has allowed you to share feelings; probably more than you ever had. This is the reason for hope.
What you have done so far is equivalent to going grocery shopping, parking grabbing the cart and walking in the store. The post sessions are the actual shopping.
It is would be like a batter standing at the plate and doing nothing while the pitches came one after another.
You have started communicating but you haven’t learned the tools for healthy marriage. Learn the WHY behind the WHAT.
A series of follow-up sessions is the next important phase of the Retrouvaille healing process. The hurt and pain of a struggling marriage cannot be healed in a single weekend experience.
The Post Sessions include a series of 2-hour talks by additional couples that expand on the weekend concepts. Each Retrouvaille community establishes the Post schedule, over either a 6 or 12-week period. Most couples, without a doubt, find this to be one of the most productive components of the program and where the most growth in the marriage occurs.
“The post-weekend phase is as crucial, maybe more critical, to the healing of marriage problems.”
The weekend is not a ‘miracle cure’; therefore, the post-weekend sessions have been designed to continue the marriage renewal begun on the weekend. The post-weekend phase is as crucial, maybe more critical, to the healing of marriage problems. During the post-weekend sessions, the technique learned on the weekend is further developed and is used to explore additional areas of the marriage relationship.