What does our commitment to the Retrouvaille process mean to you? DYFF.

Dear LORD:

Thank you that we are dialogging. It has been too long. Help us to continue to communicate in this way. It is so helpful to our marriage and to our persons. Amen!

MDDL:

Your MEQ today was the wonderful way that you came home and folded yourself into my lap after work. I was so sad during the day when you were gone. It blessed my heart so much for you to love me in that way. I needed you to be there and you were. I love you so much!

To me, our commitment to the Retrouvaille process is very important. I have been somewhat frustrated that our efforts to be connected to a CORE group have been thwarted so far. I believe that attending the Arizona meeting will give us another perspective on what Retrouvaille can be. So far, our view of the Retrouvaille organization has been limited to the Raleigh and Greensboro groups, plus your contact with Patti. That's not a lot of experience, in other words.

It is similar to the way I viewed Bikram yoga when all I had done was go to Naeda's studio. One voice, and one view. When I traveled extensively, going to yoga studios all over the country, then I got a richer view of what Bikram yoga is like. It is a tapestry of teachers and yogis all over the country, much more interesting and complex than one little studio on Chapel Hill.

Our view so far of Retrouvaille has been similar. We need to branch out and see more of this movement. We need to understand what it has meant to people's lives in various communities. We need to see for ourselves.

I would actually like to do more than just this weekend. I think a trip a quarter would be nice, or at least one every six months. Wouldn't that be great? I would like for us to continue to be in the atmosphere of other couples who have been through the process we have been through, learning and growing from their strength.

My strongest feeling about our commitment to Retrouvaille is one of joy. I am energized and joyful that we are going to get to be in another weekend together! Yay! It is like the unmitigated joy of a baby who has just fed from her mother's breast and looks up at her mother's eyes and breaks out into a big baby milky grin. Then the flow of joy between the mother and baby is a beautiful thing to behold! That is the feeling that I feel about us being together in another weekend.

I could go on, but you and I are both tired. I will post now. You are my dearest heart.

Love,
Me