The event topic for day three focuses on evaluating each other's willingness to accept help from his or her partner. This relates to how couples make decisions within their marriage and brings up topics such as -- how to spend the holidays, time with each other, time with friends, practicing faith, relationship with families, careers, financial concerns, children, hobbies, and household responsibilities.
Working as a team is an important aspect of marriage; developing what Gottman (1999) describes as a sense of "we-ness" as opposed to a "me-ness" is vital for marriage success and longevity. Creating a sense of we-ness can be achieved through cognitive behavioral couples therapy. When one part of the couples has needs that are not being met, it is important these needs are communicated to one's spouse so that they can work together to find ways -- as a team -- for the spouse to have his or her needs fulfilled -- and vice versa. This is working as a team and when one's needs are really recognized by his or her spouse and a change is made for the better, a stronger bond between the couple will occur.
Using Gottman's (1999) form, "Who does what in the marriage?," couples will describe their perception of hw things are currently handled in the household and then how they would like them to be held. These are items from running errands to the cleaners to balancing the checkbook or making the beds. This is a good way to see how each part of the couple perceives their spouses and their own levels of responsibility.
Guided behavior changes can occur in small, easy doses. They may be changes such as making dinner one night a week, taking out the garbage before being asked, or cleaning up after dinner. These guided behaviors can make a change by showing the spouse that he or she still cares about the marriage and the spouse. Skill-based interventions are different than guided behavior changes. In skill-based interventions,...
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Family Systems and Marriage Preparation Programs It has been a recent development within the United States when the government has started making an effort to establish marriage programs that can help strengthen the foundation of marriages. They have done so by recently joining hands with the church and other faith-based organizations that run marriage preparation programs. One such organization is the Association of Couples for Marriage Enrichment (ACME) that primarily focuses
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A try to help my Little Brother find positive voluntary associations. I encourage him to volunteer at his local church, and to seek afterschool enrichment programs and tutoring. But this is not always easy. He often says that he feels that people do not care -- his teachers, his parents, and even his friends who try to uphold a 'straight and narrow' path. He also says that he wants to
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