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Marriage Mentoring

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Twelve Conversations!

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Consider being a mentor.

  • Would you like to make a difference in a young couple’s marriage?
  • Would you like to help them get off to a great start for a life-long successful marriage?
  • Can you identify the strengths of your own marriage?
  • Have you learned things along the way in your marriage?
  • Can you share encouraging stories about what you have learned?

You may have just found your calling to be a marriage mentor to younger couples.

The Need

In our divorce-prone society, 20% of all first marriages are disrupted by either separation or divorce in the first five years. After ten years, 33% of all first marriages are disrupted by either separation or divorce. We need to provide support for marriages in these critical early years and at other transition points as well.

Value of Mentoring

When you learn to drive a car, you get an instructor. You get a permit and your first experiences driving are with an experienced driver.

When you pursue a career, you get training from experts. You earn a degree and have teachers to educate you.

When you design a house you employ an architect. When you build the house you hire a contractor to get it done.

When you get married, you get a minister to perform the ceremony … but who helps you build the marriage?

Marriage mentors can help you do that! Practical wisdom from mentors can help you learn to do the first-year tasks of marriage right the first time.

Which would you rather do — keep making the first-year mistakes of marriage for ten years OR learn the first-year skills of marriage in year one and move forward with growing a successful marriage? Building a solid foundation for your marriage is crucial for developing a happy marriage.

The 12 Topics

  • Thankfulness
  • Healthy Marriage Habits: Showing Our Love for Each Other
  • Leaving and Cleaving: Making our Life Together
  • Recreation & Playfulness
  • Money in Marriage
  • Communication
  • Problem Solving
  • Balancing Acts: Marriage, Family, Community, & Work
  • Children
  • Friendship, Closeness, & Intimacy
  • Planning for Our Future
  • Celebrating the Holidays