These are the participants shown at the group pictures: Leonardo & Helen Sescon, Rolando & Dorotea Sumatra, Luiben & Liane Magto, Nerio & Sonia Cagas, Olegario & Marelin Valles, Elvin & Gloria Oliveros, and Edmundo and Anecita Holotin.
Talks and workshops they went through includes Building Strong Foundations, The Art of Communication, Resolving Conflict, The Power of Forgiveness, The Impact of Family - Past and Present, Good Sex and Love in Action. On the evaluation that followed, all of them are going to bring at least one couple to the next Marriage Course batch early next year and also willing to volunteer to share and serve the next participants.
“Marriage is a commitment where husband and wife grow together in their relationship and deepened that through openness, having a date once a week and regularly with the kids too. During the Marriage Course we were able to express our feelings and our thoughts. We worked together in the same office and we have been married for 13 years but had not done a good talk not until we went through the course for 7 weeks. As God as the center now, our relationship is working and we started our regular marriage time last Saturday, November 13, 2010. Lastly, I thanked Joy Babaran who invited us to join this course.” Luiben & Liane Magto
Dodo:” We were married for 25 years. I learned a lot in this course especially on the issue of resolving conflict. There are really issues that couple need to discuss and resolve. Conflict resolution is difficult and I remember one of our marriage sponsors warned us of the many conflicts in marriage that are not to be avoided but to be resolved. Now, we are given a tool to face the issues in our marriage and make a peaceful resolution together. The 10 o’clock habit and five languages of love is very useful to us.”
Helen: ”I am more attracted to the Parents and In-Laws issues especially on the diagram showed to us. It is about preparing us as parent to our children who will soon have their own marriage in the near future. What is the result of the course to us? We become more closer and affectionate to one another.” Dodo & Helen Sescon
Munding: “What I learned more in the course was good communication in marriage. I am the silent type. I need to work on expressing, telling and learning to communicate what and how I feel and relate this feeling to my wife.”
Anne: “We are married for 13 years and the years together, I can count my fingers the instances we fight over issues in marriage relationship. The course helps us express what we feel inside us and learn to understand and appreciate one another in our differences. Now, we are all aware of this and is now working together to building our relationship.” Munding & Anne Hilotin
Lando: “We are now 40 years of marriage. And yet I learned a lot from this course which made us even more closer and loving."
Bebe: As practiced, conflicts between us are resolved the same day. This was not enough. I learned many things from the course and one of these and very important is I become lately an obedient wife to my husband.” Lando & Bebe Sumatra
Boy: “Before, I am not an affectionate husband to my wife and children…I am the man of the house…what I decide they will follow. Attending Marriage Course helped me a lot. As a couple we start to discuss issues…though we have different upbringings, culture, emotions and differences with one another. As a result of this, I now learned to become friendly to my wife. No more barriers between us that we can discuss anything.”
Sonia: “ I also have my shortcomings as a wife and I’m willing to work it out with my best to grow more in our marriage relationship.” Boy & Sonia Cagas
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