Values and goals

Very simply, the core objectives are:

  • Communicate a message of hope for each couple
  • Encourage couples to invest in their relationship
  • Improve the quality of relationships in couples and families


MarriageWeek, an independant association in Switzerland, aims to promote healthy and durable relationships for couples and families. The relationship between a man and a woman, a lifestyle chosen by a large number of citizens, has it's own distinctives and merits focussed attention.

To accomplish this goal, the association will :

  • Organise a week each year with the purpose of reinforcing couples in their relationship, and in particular married couples.
  • Communicate information that helps understand and improve personal relationships.
  • Encourage other institutions and groups to initiate activities in harmony with the goal.

MarriageWeek is dedicated to helping couples live out the dream that they started out with: a long and fruitful relationship. Couples do not marry with the idea of getting divorced later on. Instinctively there is recognition that a long term stable relationship is desirable, and social research demonstrates that the stable marriage relationship has lots of long term advantages.

Statement

"MarriageWeek reminds us that marriage is not an exchange of vows just for a day, but for a lifetime....
Laurent Wehrli ,
Municipal counselor and deputy, President, Pro Familia Switzerland