The Marriage Preparation Course
This 5-evening course is designed for couples who want to develop strong foundations for a lasting marriage. While based on Christian principles, the course is relevant and helpful for any couple with or without a Christian faith or church background.
Over the five evenings spent together, you will learn important tools that will enable you to make your marriage work. The evenings are very relaxed and begin with delicious refreshments. This is followed by short talks interspersed with communication exercises and questions for you to discuss together as a couple.
There is no group work, and you will not be asked to share your discussions with anyone else. Each couple has the chance to discuss issues with a married ’support couple’ if they wish.
Topics covered include:
- Communication
- Commitment
- Resolving conflict
- Keeping love alive
- Shared values
The Marriage Preparation Courses hosted by Oxfordshire Family Trust are run in several locations across the county by experienced NCSN co-ordinators.
Cost: £40 per couple for the whole course including course manuals and refreshments.
For more information: marriage@oxfordshirefamilytrust.org
What people said:
‘The Marriage Preparation Course was invaluable to us as a couple. Although we had been going out together for 4½ years and so thought we knew everything under the sun that there was to know about each other, we learnt so much and benefited from it immensely. We thoroughly enjoyed each evening.’
‘Discussing new issues was a challenge, yet very rewarding and I feel drew us closer together. It was interesting to find that with most issues we had not yet discussed we had the same feelings.’
‘We had issues that both of us were too scared to bring up, but did during the course.’
‘Without a doubt talking over the issues was beneficial to us. We have really tried to do things differently and put each other first.’