“THIS IS VITAL! IT HELPS MILITARY MARRIAGES RECONNECT AND STABILIZE.”
— MARRIAGE MANAGEMENT PARTICIPANT
More About Our Mission:
Why Marriage Management is Important to Military
Couples and Veterans…
Many military members, returning from deployment, frequently have varying degrees of difficulty reconnecting with their spouses and family. Frequently this begins a cycle of alcohol and drug abuse, destructive behaviors, divorce, homelessness and suicide. This destructive cycle increased with each additional deployment. Marriage Management helps stabilize the marriage and provide the tools needed to build a healthy relationship and family.
MILITARY MEMBERS AND VETERANS NEED
- A healthy family for support
- A place to be yourself, to be respected and accepted
- Interaction with peers
- A continuing mission to serve
MILITARY SERVICE PUTS UNIQUE STRESS ON EVERY MARRIAGE –
- Separation during deployments
- Frequent moves (PCS) and resettling
- Re-integration and re-adjustment to a non-combat environment
- Dealing with PTS, TBI and other injuries both physical and emotional
- Changes in Family dynamic and structure
- Trust may be an issue
- Intimacy and bonding may be affected
- Calm communication is difficult yet desperately needed
- Conflict resolution is critical
Military Couples and Veterans returning from combat suffer considerable challenges reconnecting with their spouse and families.
They frequently exhibit unusual stresses such as marital strife leading to a high susceptibility to divorce, drug and alcohol abuse, risky behaviors, instability and suicide.
30% of Military Suicides had a failed intimate relationship in the prior month!
Our mission is to mitigate that stress by giving the Veteran real-world tools to combat these effects and effectively manage dangerous triggers, damaging behaviors and resolve conflicts in a healthy manner.
Veterans should not have to sacrifice their marriage because they served their country.
Yet multiple combat deployments, PTS, TBI and other mental, physical and moral wounds have made marriages a hidden casualty of war! Some sectors of the military have divorce rates over 80%.
Marriage Management offers the tools and training needed to keep relationships stable and satisfying. A recent study which included a control group with no marriage education, showed that the divorce rate for military couples decreases by two-thirds for couples who participate in a marriage education class.
THE GOAL OF MARRIAGE MANAGEMENT IS TO STRENGTHEN MILITARY AND VETERAN MARRIAGES.
- Enable couples to better cope with the unique stress of current or prior military service.
- To keep the marriages of those who serve or have served our country from becoming a hidden causality of war.
- Our programs offer a safe and confidential place for husbands and wives gain:
- The skills to Manage Marriage!
- Support
- Encouragement
- Tools – that
- Improve Communication
- Increase Respect and Cooperation
- Manage Disagreement
- These are REAL LIFE TOOLS for REAL LIFE RELATIONSHIPS; not bull, psycho-babble, proselytizing or Death by PowerPoint!
Marriage Management offers
in-person one-day classes
or virtual evening classes.
Marriage Management is typically a one-day marriage retreat. It is not counseling, but a lively, enjoyable, interactive marriage education training. It is only for Veteran and Military members and their spouses or partners. Follow-up tools and manuals are provided at no cost.
Participants learn couple links...
- Ways to deeply know your partner,
- Respectfully cultivate trust,
- Heal trust wounds,
- Know and fulfill your partner's needs,
- Develop resilience for changes and crises,
- Enrich romance and vitality.
These classes include:
- Peer-to-Peer training led by only by Military Veteran married couples.
- A safe, non-judgmental environment.
- Offering real-life, immediately usable tools and techniques to build and improve communication, understanding, respect, conflict resolution, commitment and intimacy.
- Private couple assignments…so no one else knows your business.
- Healing, encouraging, hopeful atmosphere.
- Free childcare may be available in some locations.
- Lunch, coffee, light breakfast items, snacks and water are included.
- Referrals for other veteran services if requested.
What is the cost?
- Our program is FREE for all who have served in the military and their spouse/dependent/partner.
- IDs are required from both attendees; at least one ID needs to prove military or veteranstatus.
- Engaged Couples who complete the class receive a Twogether in Texas Certificate entitling them to $60 off the price of a Texas Marriage License.
Is Marriage Management Certified?
SEE ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND AWARDSYes. We are trained and certified to teach many research and evidence-based curricula. Marriage Management is also Certified by the R4 Alliance as a Program of Excellence. We are supported by the Texas Veterans Commission, Fund for Veterans’ Assistance, and the United Way Veteran's Fund. We qualify for the Texas State Employees Charitable Campaign and certified by the Twogether in Texas State Marriage Initiative. Marriage Management qualified under the strict administrative guidelines for the Combined Federal Campaign (CFC) for six years in a row. We are a state and federally registered 501(c)(3) non-profit organization.
Among many awards, Marriage Management was nationally recognized as a recipient of the 2010 Newman’s Own Award for service to the Military. We also earned the Platinum Transparency Award from GuideStar.
Where and When are classes held?
SEE THE SCHEDULEMarriage Management is based in Texas and provides scheduled no-cost classes in several cities and towns throughout the State to minimize travel for our participants.
Occasionally we offer classes in other States; please check our schedule.
What Military and Veteran Couples Say
