Convention aimed at 'helping good marriages become great'

Published: 2005-07-12

TOWSON, Md. (CNS) -- When John Geer recalled his first Worldwide Marriage Encounter weekend 10 years ago, he remembered it being a "life-changing event ... like coming out of a cave." The Arlington, Va., resident and his wife, Ann, had been married 27 years when they decided to participate in a Marriage Encounter weekend, where they learned to better dialogue and communicate their feelings with one another. Like many of the 700 couples participating in the national Worldwide Marriage Encounter convention at Towson University July 8-10, the Geers, now married nearly 37 years, have become much closer and developed a stronger marriage as a result of Marriage Encounter. "I have discovered more about my husband in the last 10 years than in the 30 years (of knowing him) prior to that," said Ann Geer as she sat in the Towson Center auditorium the morning of July 9.

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