“What will it take for this couple to do what is needed to help their marriage!?  How much pain do they have to be in to do the work of reconciliation?!”

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Rich was separated from his wife Sharon for sixteen months, from 2003 until 2005. Today he coaches men to reconcile their marriage. “I encourage men to seek God, hold out for hope, and always remember that if they make changes in themselves that it has to result in changes in the relationship.
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Some coaching ministries evolve out of painful experiences. This is exactly how Rich Wildman[1] developed compassion for separated men. He and his wife Sharon were separated 16 months before a successful reconciliation. Today he serves men that are enduring the painful and scary challenge of reconciling their marriage by coaching them.
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Many couples have asked in jest if we could live with them. Why? They experience effective communication, problem-solving and goal-setting in sessions that we facilitate, and they aren’t confident that they can continue such high quality conversations without facilitators to guide and police the process. However, with enough practice and good-will, couples CAN learn to do this for themselves.
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“I want to take more walks with you, Jeff” Jill said as part of a demo during one of our Marriage Coach training classes. “I’m curious about you wanting to take more walks” I asked. She was happy to share. “It seems that when we walk we have some of our best talks. There are fewer possibilities of interruption, and it’s when I get your most focused attention. It helps me feel closer to you”, she said. Walking and talking to get closer? Cool. We just improved our marriage.
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“What are you doing, dad?” Carly asked over the phone. I’d been out of town for almost a week. We’d had a few good conversations during my trip, but this wasn’t one of them because I simply responded to her question…She wanted to know more, but didn’t know how to ask…the conversation would have gone better and she would have learned something important had I seized the opportunity to teach her to ask sharper questions.
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Do you feel like you’ve messed some things up with your kids? Does their life seem to give evidence that you were too hard on them, too lenient, too something because they aren’t living the life you dreamed for them? Is your relational connection strained? Do you wish you could go back and do some things differently?…a Christian Coaching approach to relationship can give you a way to repair, strengthen and protect a loving relationship with your kids, starting today.
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Those who invest in the marriage health of couples are aware that financial issues are often at the top of the list. Few topics arouse the intensity of emotions like money. Spender vs. saver, frugal vs. extravagant, overspending, under-planning and control of the purse strings are a few of the tensions that couples experience.
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Few people expect to get “the call”. I always figured it happened to others, but wouldn’t happen to me. Yet, there I was screaming in the phone “NO” as my dad had just told me that my son, Landon, was in an accident and might be dead. He was visiting grandpa’s house riding four-wheelers when he lost control and ran through a barb-wired fence…Our recovery has been a long journey. Along the way we discovered coaching as a great way to relate people that are grieving. Coaching is a natural fit for what a grieving person needs.
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