Originally we had planned to hold our European Parents Matching Convocation (PMC) in May. However considering the present situation, our staff decided to hold the PMC as a webinar this year.
Continue readingPMC Spring Webinar 2020
Pix of the Cosmic Blessing 2020
Check out pictures of the Cosmic Blessing 2020 on our
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Your BFD team!
Matching & Blessing Preparation Handbook For Parents and Children
Dear Blessed Families,
The EUME BFD put together this online booklet to support and guide Parents and Blessed Children on the way to the Matching and Blessing.
The booklet is available online and we will offer a hard copy soon as well.
Below you can read the introduction letter from the booklet.
BFD Matching and Blessing Handbook DOWNLOAD
On behalf of the EUME BFD staff,
Orlande
30 Day Relationship Renewal Challenge
Relationship researcher and therapist John Gottman, has shown that relationships are strengthened when couples engage in 5 positive interactions for every 1 negative interaction. By taking on this challenge you’ll create an awareness about how you interact with your partner. Many of the suggested actions follow Gary Chapman‘s 5 Love Languages, so there is an action to meet the need of every partner! You may also begin interacting with one another in ways you haven’t in months, years or maybe ever. Sounds like a good way to add some spark to the everyday routine!
Continue readingTestimonies of the HN Tour
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Finally an open conversation about several issues that are going on. I am blessed and committed to have a very honest relationship with my wife but we have recently been talking to couples About intimacy and sex. People struggle with it and there is hardly any real conversation so I’m really happy about this program. Also we are very diverse group: 1st gen/2nd gen, blessed single that is a very good base for the future Thanks a lot for your courage.
Anger Never Works As Well As Loving
Written by Greg Baer on reallove.com/blog
Last week I posted a blog about establishing a personal zero tolerance for anger. Click here to read that blog. I should have anticipated—but did not—a question that would naturally follow what I said. One woman wrote:
“I understand the disadvantages of anger, but how do you say something important to your husband when he doesn’t ever communicate and rarely honors his agreements? Sometimes anger is the only thing that works with someone like that.”
Continue readingCouples Workshop in Altavilla Italy
Couples Coming to Action
May 17- 19, 2019 we held a special young blessed Couples workshop in the area where we live, a beautiful UNESCO heritage, called Langhe.
12 Couples from all over Italy and Europe came, we had 3 days of heavy rain and this could lead us even closer in all our activities.
Marriage Before Parenting
To nail parenting, you have to place your marriage before parenting.
Before the kids came along, it was just you and your spouse.
And guess what, when your kids are all grown up and move out…
It will once again, just be you and your spouse.
I know this sounds bizarre, but our children will grow up and start a family of their own. It’s our job as parents to show them what unity in marriage looks like. What love looks like. What a healthy argument sounds like. Most importantly, how to communicate with your spouse.
11 Tiny Things That Make Any Relationship Stronger & Happier, No Matter What
When couples have problems, or they feel like they’re not as happy as they should be, they pretty much always think there’s one big shift or change that will fix everything. But in reality, it’s more often the case that relationships get stronger and happier because of a collection of tiny changes. It’s the little, daily work that make the biggest impact.
Enthusiasm: The Secret Ingredient to Intimacy
One of the best gifts you can give your spouse is enthusiasm; not just accepting each other’s differences, but celebrating those differences, admiring those differences, and being thankful that your life together will be that much richer and more well-rounded because the two of you are different.
Let me give you an example from my own marriage.
