Below are comments from couples & a priest who have experienced a Marriage Encounter weekend.

• "Bob and I no longer celebrate our wedding anniversary once a year. Since Marriage Encounter, we celebrate our marriage ... every day!"
  
• “Mary and I have been married for 25 years, and we thought we knew everything about each other. Thanks to Marriage Encounter we're really getting to know one another better."
  
• "Rick and I love each other very much, but we felt as if the world was slowly pushing us apart, Daily problems of money, job, and children were steadily becoming more important than our relationship. Marriage Encounter has helped to put things back into proper perspective for us. It's great!"
  
• "Al and I never realized what it meant to be a sacramental couple. We discovered on the weekend how important our marriage is to the Church."
  
• "When some friends suggested that Sheila and I make a Marriage Encounter, we were shocked and more than a little hurt. We were very happily married and, frankly, it surprised us that they thought we needed 'marriage counseling'. When we finally told them how we felt, they laughed and said that they had suggested the Encounter because we were a happily married couple. Now, I'm glad they did. We got an awful lot out of it precisely because we brought a lot to it."
  
• "It was Becky's idea to go on the weekend. I went along strictly to avoid an argument. I'm sure glad we went. We really got a lot out of it."
  
• "I'm a priest. Marriage Encounter has helped me to realize and accept my own humanness. It's given me the means to understand myself as a man. This has proved invaluable in the living out of my priesthood."