Services
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Pre-Marital Preparation
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Marriage Mentoring
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One-on-One
Tom and Ruth Ann also offer specialized services for churches ⛪. Contact them to learn more.
Pre-Marital Mentoring
Pre-marital preparation is for couples who want to deepen their relationship and pinpoint growth areas, before tying the knot. It’s an investment in your relationship, long-term, reaching far beyond the wedding day.
Couples discover that, contrary to popular belief, pre-marital is not about achieving perfection, but “helping marriages sing” (from The Meaning of Marriage).
Weaving spiritual development throughout, Tom and Ruth Ann focus on helping the couple examine areas of:
Communication and Conflict
Finances
Personalities
Family History
Faith History
Physical Intimacy
Other topics that surface and per request
Details
$800 (scholarships available upon request)
Made up of six sessions, each 1-1½ hour, plus one post-wedding check-in after the wedding (as a wedding gift!).
Most couples choose to meet every two weeks.
Resources Used
Prepare/Enrich Inventory
Enneagram personality tool
Family History Analysis
Faith History Background
The couple buys these books:
Things I Wish I’d Known Before I Got Married by Gary Chapman (two copies)
Becoming Us by Beth and Jeff McCord
For Women Only by Shaunti Feldhahn
For Men Only by Shaunti and Jeff Feldhahn
The Gift of Sex by Clifford L. and Joyce J. Penner
Marriage Mentoring
No stranger to the difficulties of marriage, Tom and Ruth Ann offer marriage mentoring for couples who want to work through areas of conflict and deepen their relationship.
Many couples want to resolve old conflicts, or break cycles of dysfunction, and getting started is often one of the hardest parts.
In coming alongside couples and custom-tailoring sessions to unique needs, Tom and Ruth Ann:
Provide a safe space for couples to be honest.
Focus on communications patterns, identifying ones that don’t work and cultivating the ones that do.
Develop the couples’ conflict resolution strategies.
Utilize the Enneagram to help couples understand personality differences.
Share experiences and encouragement from their 38 years of marriage.
Where it’s desired, help couples integrate faith into their marriage and other relationships.
Direct the couple to appropriate resources or specialists for specific challenges.
Offer individual sessions one-on-one when beneficial to the marriage.
Details:
$140 per 1 ½ hour session.
One-on-One
Sometimes, meeting one-on-one with either Tom or Ruth Ann is the best fit for an individual.
Schedule time to work through relationship difficulties or grow in other areas.
Details
$100 per 1 ½ hour session