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Weekend to Remember: Honest Stories from Real Attendees This is my second collection of positive and negative firsthand, anonymized reviews from Christians who attended Weekend to Remember (WTR), the marriage retreat created by Dennis and Barbara Rainey, co-founders...
🕊️ Weekend to Remember Marriage Retreat: Can it Fix a Bad Marriage? FamilyLife’s Weekend to Remember (WTR) is one of the most recognizable Christian marriage retreats in the United States. It is promoted by CRU (Campus Crusade for Christ). According to founder Dennis...
“I Wish I’d Left Sooner”: What Parents Say About Timing Their Divorce When Kids Are Involved One of the hardest questions parents in destructive marriages ask is: “Should I wait until the kids are older?” Many fear that divorce will scar their children or destroy...
💔 Getting Through the Mandatory Divorce Parenting Class If you’re looking for Christian divorce support, you’re not alone. Many believers facing an abusive or high-conflict marriage are required to take court-ordered classes they find confusing or shaming. This post...
Hope Restored Marriage Intensive: Real Results From 44 Former Attendees As a Christian divorce recovery leader, I am asked frequently about marriage intensives. So I did a survey of 330 past participants of multi-day Christian marriage intensives or marriage retreats....
When “Restoring Hope” Meant Losing Safety: Patricia’s Story and the Hidden Cost of Christian Marriage Therapy Patricia went to Focus on the Family’s Hope Restored marriage intensive looking for help. Instead, what the program calls ‘restoring hope’ sent her back into...
🧩 Introduction In 2011, Focus on the Family’s Hope Restored marriage intensive—then known as the National Institute of Marriage (NIM)—published a paper it claimed proved the program’s success. More than a decade later, those same numbers are still being used in their...
💔 When Hope Restored Stops the Process: Why You Can’t Choose Divorce at Focus on the Family’s Marriage Intensive If you’re reading this, you might be in a marriage that feels unbearable. Maybe you’ve prayed, waited, forgiven, and tried everything. Maybe your pastor or...
Catholic Annulment: 21 Recognized Grounds Based on the 1983 Code of Canon Law and official Catholic sources [button link="https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/x3z89ew3pep54ya5fnoyp/Catholic-Annulment-21-Reasons-Grounds.pdf?rlkey=p6q2s5pqfcklqrbys1en97t5g&dl=0"...