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Marriage Preparation Retreat
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What better way to provide each other a positive assurance of having a lasting, secure, trusting, loving and happy marriage.
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I would imagine you're hoping for a lifetime marriage and a happy home life to bring up your children. The communication skills taught during your retreat were not taught to you in growing up, in school, or likely any other source. Wouldn't you rather have these awesome and valuable skills going into your marriage than stumble along hoping you'll be able to figure things out as you go? 

​Some of the challenges you may be facing:
  • Moving in together
  • Sharing household chores
  • Figuring out finances
  • Knowing how to resolve differences, challenges and issues when they arise
  • Having children and parenting together
  • All come with enough challenges in themselves. 
Wouldn't you rather know ahead of time how you're going to handle your disagreements, challenges and issues, before they even come up and have a sense of confidence you know how to get through just about anything that will come your way, such as 
  • where and how you'll spend your family holidays 
  • how you choose to discipline your children 
  • choosing the best home and location for your family 
  • balancing a financial budget fairly
  • dealing with intruding family and in-laws 
  • affair proofing your relationship 
  • surviving the lose of a job 
  • and so many other things that are unexpected when the two of you are feeling so in love now. 

Don't wait until there are challenges and issues you struggle addressing and resolving.

​Spend a glorious week:
  • Exploring your relationship for the better
  • Focusing on the positive attributes you both bring to the relationship
  • Having fun together in the heat of planning a wedding
  • Growing more intimate than you imagined
  • Learning communication skills that will serve you for a lifetime

​What you can expect to achieve during your week long Marriage Preparation Retreat:
  • How to work through future challenges and differences
  • Clear parent planning for new or blended families
  • Finance budgeting for the future
  • Setting priorities in your relationship
  • Knowledgable ways of keeping love alive
  • Divorce proofing your marriage
We've decide to give ourselves the best
​marriage gift ever - what now:
  • Once you secure a date through Dr. Wylie and your online payment
  • Make your lodging reservations based on the many suggestions on the Idyllwild page
  • Secure any traveling needs, such as flights and car rental
  • Complete your pre-retreat form provided and return to Dr. Wylie
  • Separately do the pre-marriage inventory provided by Dr. Wylie
  • Arrive the day before your Marriage Preparation Retreat to settle in and explore enchanting Idyllwild

Five days will be spent:
  • Starting with a hardy breakfast either at your B&B, cooked up fresh in your own cabin, or one of the many enticing restaurants in Idyllwild. Restaurants listed on the Idyllwild page.
  • Meet with Dr. Wylie for two to three hours each day learning and applying your new communication skills and getting to know one another in a much deeper and more loving way
  • Enjoy lunch out or plan a picnic together in the woods or along Strawberry Creek
  • Spend time having fun together, such as, hiking one of the many beautiful trails, visit the Nature Center, creating a ceramic together at Earth & Fire, a couple's massage, strolling through the many gift shops and art galleries, visit Idyl-Awhile for beer and wine tasting, Higher Ground for a special coffee drink,  taking a relaxing nap or reading a good book.
  • Daily you'll have short reading assignments and exercises to do to enhance your new communication skills and grow closer together - not usually more than an hour a day
  • Dinner can be at one of our many fine restaurants or if you rent a cabin you can cook a meal together
  • Your evenings can be spent watching a movie, either at the Rustic Theater or a DVD, also consider putting together a puzzle, playing cards or a board game, and certainly spend time gazing at our amazing night sky with millions of bright stars. 

Create this week to not only be educational, yet also a "vacation for your relationship" - have fun and enjoy each other's company. Don't get caught up in wedding plans, leave work behind, turn off your cell phones and totally delight in focusing on one another. 

This is the most valuable pre-wedding gift you can give to one another, if you don't think it's in your budget suggest to your parents that this would be an amazing wedding gift they could give you. The  investment will be the most important gift for your future, marriage and the children you bring into the world and/or blending families. 

​Check Calendar dates that work best for you.
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Fill out Contact Form or call, text (602-743-4775), or email Dr. Wylie now to set your Marriage Preparation Retreat date and then secure your date by investing online. Deposit of $1000 holds and secures your date.

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