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laugh your way to a better marriage.
DH bought this marriage building/counseling video for us to watch. We don't have any big issues but believe we could always improve and plus Mark Gungor was pretty funny. DH's parents were having some issues so we watched it with them and about half way through it they were both in tears and decided to go stay the night in a hotel to talk every thing out and make up. We heard about this video from one of his friends that was on the road to divorce and it literally saved their marriage. I'm not sure why I'm even posting this but I thought it was a great marriage building video and someone might be interested in it.
Re: laugh your way to a better marriage.
BFP #2 02/05/2013 EDD 09/19/2013
Some of the retreats, yes. They're all different. DH and I have been to 2; they were each different, and neither was Laughing Your Way...
A church I attended in college hosted him and he is really funny! I think it works because really, at the end of it all marriage can be stressful. I just think about us right now. We're still waiting for our BAH to start, so there's financial stress (even though we had saved, months of rent OOP plus deposits, buying a washer/dryer, bed, etc adds up!) and the stress of the impending baby, the trying to get organized, a looming deployment. We realized the other night that most of our conversations were centered around what needed to get done, and not just enjoying each other.
So yeah, sitting down and watching a comedian who happens to be talking about the stresses of marriage that everyone goes through at one time or another is helpful.
Our retreat used it. It's kind of stereotypical. The parts that were showed to us basically said women talk nonstop about feelings and other things us men don't care about and us men basically ignore them by going to our "nothing boxes" and watching tv. Oh, and, all men need sex to feel in love and all women need love to want to have sex. But if you understand that men are men and women are women, your relationship will be awesome.
I liked it more when the Chaplain talked about finding ways to deal with conflict.