Healing to Reunite

Healing wounds to prevent divorce is the objective of “Retrouvaille,” an association whose name explains its mission: reuniting, and not just a simple therapy for the couple, after which they can choose—as if these were two equivalent options—either to divorce or to strengthen the family unit, but a human interest in removing the obstacles that make a couple suffer and of which divorce legislation takes no account.

The service, offered to couples with relational problems—those about to separate, already separated or intending to reconstruct their relationship—has a 70% success rate and often works in cooperation with the Dioceses: “The Retrouvaille program, say the directors, helps people to discover how the listening process, forgiveness, communication, and dialogue are powerful tools for the reconciliation between the spouses and for regaining a lasting conjugal relationship, even after betrayal and separation.”

Retrouvaille also “offers the possibility of finding a life of faith, by proposing and promoting the sacrament of marriage lived in a Christian community, where the couple comes to be a part of a group formed to support married couples who believe in the value of marriage and prayer.” In a world that has entered the tunnel of addiction to loneliness, experiences like these help us to understand that the family, just as an organ of the body, needs to be protected and maintained. And, if it falls ill, it can and must be cared for.

Read more: http://www.retrouvaille.it/