An invitation to all couples who are enjoying married life together. Would you like to find a way of enriching your married life even more with faith and love? We invite you to come to Building a Better Marriage. No matter how long you have been married, this helpful and enjoyable experience is guaranteed to bring you closer to one another (and to God) in your marriage. This can be either online for a morning or as a full day spent face to face. We look forward to greeting you there.
Testimony about Building a Better Marriage
How to make your marriage happier, better and stronger
An initiative aimed at making marriages happier, better and stronger is spreading across Southwark archdiocese.
Called Building a Better Marriage (BABM), it involves married couples from the Southwark Marriage and Family Life diocesan team visiting parishes to present a one-day course. The presenting team give personal sharings as part of guidance on answering questions posed to couples attending the seminar such as:
- Who am I?
- What do I bring to my marriage?
- In what way can we improve our communication skills as a couple?
- How do we deal with conflict and confrontation in our marital relationship?
Other issues covered include sexuality and sex, finance and marital spirituality.
The BABM course is aimed at married couples who would like to make their relationship better. Various techniques are introduced by the presenting team to help couples raise and deal with sensitive issues in a cooperative way. Discussions are one to one and there is no group sharing.
The end result is a deeper, closer and more loving marital relationship. That and the success of the day are amply witnessed by couples’ comments on the (anonymous) evaluation forms returned at the end of the day…
- ‘First time for us and thoroughly enjoyed it.’
- ‘Please go to every parish and do this: it’s fantastic.’
- ‘Enjoyable, an eye opener’
- ‘It has helped us to be more open to ourselves and discuss topics that we tend to avoid.’
- ‘Helped us to deal with issues in our marriage in a less confrontational way.’
- ‘Informative and invaluable.’
- ‘Helped us realise how lucky we are and also how we can always improve a good marriage.’
Organised in cooperation with the local parish priest, each Building A Better Marriage day is held on a Saturday from 9.30 am to 4.30pm. An online morning session may be an option.
- Any parish/deanery who would like the MFL team to run a BABM course in their area should contact Carole on mflkent@rcaos.org.ukor phone 07983 524 727
DATES FOR 2025
November 1 Petts Wood
Or YOUR parish - just contact us for available dates.
