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The 1st Cavalry Division Sustainment Brigade held a couple’s workshop marriage retreat at Tyson’s Corner Retreat here Oct. 22-23 to help Soldiers and Families build stronger bonds.
During the marriage retreat, couples were given tools to better understand their personality traits, their partners’ love languages, and how forgiveness is a crucial element to moving forward in a healthy relationship.
The brigade’s chaplain, Chap. (Maj.) Roderick Swanson, organized the retreat because he wanted to provide couples with tools to better equip them in their marriages.
Swanson stressed the importance of not giving up in your marriage, and having the fortitude to keep working out the difficulties in their relationships.
“Soldiers that are happy at their homes are happy at their jobs,” said Swanson, a Birmingham, Alabama native. “If they improve their home life, their work life will improve as well; there’s a correlation between the two.”
Many couples took advantage of the area that surrounded the retreat and interacted with horses and walked the trails nearby.
Gene Tyson, a retired Army chaplain who started Tyson’s Corner in 2001 and passed away in 2012, began the program after being called to open a retreat center to help Soldiers.
“It’s a spiritual retreat,” said Joanna Tyson, daughter of Gene. “It’s a place of retreat that is peaceful and away from all the stressors.”
Staff Sgt. Daniel Willis, a Palmdale, California, native, and chaplain assistant who helped create the event, said the unit ministry team wanted the retreat to be a success, so he reached out to family advocacy, military Family life consultants, and behavioral health.
Albert Rodriguez, a specialty trainer with family advocacy, spoke of the importance in understanding personalities of the couples. He called it identifying primary colors, a personality tool developed to demonstrate how people are different when it comes to how they handle life and relationships.
“Each person has a primary love language that we must learn to speak if we want that person to feel love,” said Rodriguez. “It’s important to understand your spouse’s love language to build a better relationship.”
During the training, couples discovered their love languages during a class that enabled them to learn what love trait they best respond to.
“We really liked the five love languages portion,” said Pfc. Chycnque Harvey, a native of Fayetteville, North Carolina. “My spouse realized how to speak my love language better and she’s made it her goal to do that.”
| Date Taken: | 10.23.2015 |
| Date Posted: | 10.30.2015 15:58 |
| Story ID: | 180464 |
| Location: | LAMPASAS, TX, US |
| Hometown: | BIRMINGHAM, AL, US |
| Hometown: | FAYETTEVILLE, NC, US |
| Hometown: | FORT CAVAZOS, TX, US |
| Hometown: | KILLEEN, TX, US |
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