25 Jan Date Your Mate in 2-0-1-8

I wanted to take a moment and invite all the married folk at Mosaic to our upcoming annual Marriage Event (if you are new to Mosaic, we have a ton of stuff for singles throughout the year, so don’t feel left out!). As a matter of fact, if you are married, I would especially encourage you to read this:

If you have been to one of our marriage events over the last few years, you know how encouraging and fun they are.

As a matter of fact, we try to make them fun on purpose, because, as a rule, it is my experience that married couples don’t have enough friends and don’t have enough fun.

Famed marriage researcher John Gotten has proposed the “Magic Ratio” in relationships: it takes 5 positive experiences for every one negative experience in a marriage just to stay even.

Meaning, number one, unfortunately for all of us, negative experiences are more powerful than positive experiences, number two, lots of us are in trouble, and number three, the way out of many difficult places in relationships is simply having more positive experiences together.

The closer a couple approaches the 1:1 ratio of positive to negative experiences in a marriage, the more like that couple is to divorce, Gottman says.

Especially when the kids are small, and the diapers are piling up, it can be hard to maintain some semblance of a normal relationship. Another survey I came across a couple of years ago reported that couples were at their lowest level of relational satisfaction during the years their children were between ages 1 and 3. Having small children is no joke!

What if we could engineer a “seed bed” of positive experiences designed to also equip married couples to do throughout the year what they experienced over the course of a weekend?

That’s what our marriage events are designed to do, and that’s what you are going to experience this year.

Our theme is “Date Your Mate in 2-0-1-8”, a tongue-in-cheek nod to one of the key ways to create positive experiences in a marriage.

We will be bringing in my good friends Pastor Keith Tower and his wife Jennifer (who were actually members here at Mosaic many years ago). Keith pastors High Point Church in Orlando Florida, is a former NBA player (he is literally 7 feet tall), and is also a licensed professional counselor. He is an expert with the Meyers-Briggs personality assessment tool and will be utilizing that in our weekend together.

He and Jennifer are wonderful together, and they are going to do a great job for us.

Also, and this is super fun, we have designed 6 unique date packages, and part of your time together as a couple will be going on a fun, themed, surprise date together (you choose one based on title when you are registering).

Plus, dinner, breakfast and lunch are in there along with lots of other fun little touches.

So go ahead, carve out the time and money needed to come and be a part of one of the best events we do all year here. You can register here.

Most married couples don’t have enough fun and enough friends—don’t let that be your story!

Date your Mate in 2-0-1-8!

Morgan