Cosmic Couples Therapy
Another entry in the “Is the media Catholic?” files: Susan Gilbert, writing in the Health and Science section of The New York Times, reports at length about why couples therapy won’t save your marriage in the long run and how marriage therapists may themselves make things worse by favoring one partner over another or giving […]
Another entry in the “Is the media Catholic?” files: Susan Gilbert, writing in the Health and Science section of The New York Times, reports at length about why couples therapy won’t save your marriage in the long run and how marriage therapists may themselves make things worse by favoring one partner over another or giving up on the marriage and deciding that some people are “‘fundamentally mismatched.'” With friends like that, where can a troubled couple turn? To the Roman Catholic Church and its Retrouvaille intensive weekend workshops focusing on the sacrament of marriage and forgiveness and trading the stigma of individual couples therapy for group therapy-style confessions of infidelity and other marital sins.