I (Mary Kay) was to meet with Tsen but she was late in arriving as she and her husband had had a bad argument.  It was a time to listen but then I was able to share the theme of forgiveness with her.  Also we discussed various techniques of communication.  Several days later I followed up with a text and this is what she responded with…

We are getting pretty well. And we tried the speaker listener method. It worked! Thanks for your suggestion and help!

MK: I am so glad to hear that you did the speaker listener technique!

Yes. We tried. And we are more gentle today.

This is real love. Being more gentle with each other, even when we don’t feel like it. As part of our work with young couples, we introduce Christian truths in marriage counseling. We now are leading a Sunday marriage group, mostly non-Christians.

Some of our work is from the PREP program which we highly recommend, as it teaches communication techniques that changes behavior, while allowing us to introduce Christian principles to change thinking. Here is the Floor – Speaker Listener technique that we are teaching them.

You can look up “PREP Christian” or write to us for more information.

MAY we all be more GENTLE this Valentine Season!