The LINKS program will teach you how to manage your relationship using the Relationship Attachment Model (RAM). The RAM has been empirically validated in the PICK program for pacing the development of a new relationship. Now married couples can use the RAM for maintaining the harmony of an ongoing relationship. Receive tools for managing crucial relationship links such as mutually knowing each other (talking & togetherness), trusting in each other (keeping positive & respectful opinions), depending on each other (mutually meeting needs), committing to each other (cultivating deep feelings of belonging together), and sexually fulfilling each other.
The LINKS program is an enjoyable presentation rooted in major areas of research on: intimacy and romantic love, how trust is developed and maintained, forgiveness in marital relations, resiliency and commitment in marriage, emotional styles and expression in marriage, attachment/closeness in adult relationships, sexual intimacy in marriage, personal boundaries and affairs, and predictors of marital satisfaction. When you go through the LINKS program you will learn the LINKS marital maintenance Huddle-an essential meeting that you can use in your marriage to regularly strengthen the five dynamics of the RAM. This will keep your relationship strong and surface potential problems long before they dampen the intimacy in your marriage.
HEAR WHAT OTHERS ARE SAYING...
This was a very positive and inviting way to enrich our marital relationship. I feel more positive about my husband’s upcoming deployment
and more confident that we will be able to ‘weather the storm.
- Class participant
I really like the RAM model. It will help us better understand areas of importance in our marriage, and how to dialogue about them.
The commitment section was exceptionally clear and well-developed.
- Class participant
Understanding how high and low sex drive people can get along better in marriage was the most significant gain for me.
- Class participant
This program organized and put into words chaotic thoughts that I have had for a long, long time. You put terminology to what we
have been living- and have given clarity to our lives. I felt it was definitely comprehensive!
- Class participant
As a senior leader of a very large organization and military installation, I strongly recommend the LINKS Program by Dr. Van Epp for
mid- and senior-level military leaders. Couples who take to heart this counsel can not only improve their own personal relationships,
but help foster stronger families in the units and communities for which they are responsible.
- Colonel Michael Simone, Retired Commandant of the Defense Language Institute at Presidio Army Base in Monterey, CA