Healthy Marriage Program
The Healthy Marriage Program helps couples achieve their goals in marriage. The Within Our Reach curriculum created by Preventive Relationship Enhancement Program (PREP) builds on existing strengths of couples and adds skills to build a strong and satisfying relationship.
You'll gain:
- Better communication
- Reduced stress in your family
- Quality time with your partner
- More Fun in your relationship
- Understanding one another better
- How to Prevent fighting
- Problem Solving Skills
- Stronger sense of teamwork
- Stronger commitment
Classes are offered six times per year on week-day evenings, on Saturday's and in a weekend retreat format. You choose what schedule and location works best for you. The evening and Saturday classes offer a meal, free child care and a travel stipend to help pay for gas. The weekend retreats offer free overnight accommodation and meals.
Marriage
Marriage (also called matrimony or wedlock) is a social union or legal contract between people that creates kinship. The definition of marriage varies according to different cultures, but is usually an institution in which interpersonal relationships, usually intimate and sexual, are acknowledged. Such a union is often formalized via a wedding ceremony. Many cultures limit marriage to two persons of the opposite sex, but some allow forms of polygamous marriage, and some recognize same-sex marriage. In some conservative cultures, marriage is recommended or compulsory before pursuing any sexual activity.
People marry for many reasons, including one or more of the following: legal, social, libidinal, emotional, economic, spiritual, and religious. These might include arranged marriages, family obligations, the legal establishment of a nuclear family unit, the legal protection of children and public declaration of commitment.[1][2]The act of marriage usually creates normative or legal obligations between the individuals involved. Some cultures allow the dissolution of marriage through divorceor annulment.
Marriage can be recognized by a state, an organization, a religious authority, a tribal group, a local community or peers. It is often viewed as a contract. Civil marriage is the legal concept of marriage as a governmental institution irrespective of religious affiliation, in accordance with marriage laws of the jurisdiction.
