Weekend helps couples avoid marital rocks

Second in a series on Bishop's Appeal

	SEEKING A WAY: Retrouvaille offers help to couples trying to save their marriages. It receives funding through the Bishop's Appeal. (Photo illustration by Rick Evans)

Editor's note: Among the programs and services the annual Bishop's Appeal sponsors is Retrouvaille for couples with troubled marriages. Here is the story of one woman who went on a Retrouvaille weekend.

My month of "house sitting/time out" was over. It had been good in many ways, including helping me understand that I could survive on my own just fine, if I had to, but that it would be lonely and self-centered and not necessarily a life I would choose.

Neither, though, would I choose to live with the pain and conflict and negative stuff living with Tom had become.   Full story ...

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