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Welcome to the Village Gathering - our online discussion forum dedicated to assisting couples whose marriages are in crisis. Our specialty and our focus is Infidelity Intervention from Discovery to Recovery ™. Our board moderators are trained to assist you and to point you in the direction of further resources. In addition, the SYMC School of Coaching Students and Mentors are highly visible contributors who can offer invaluable guidance to those in need. We are dedicated to preserving marriages and families and to assisting couples in the work of healing and restoration of love.

The Village Gathering is open to all who wish to read. Only registered members may post replies.

To register please read the following rules of conduct for our Village Gathering and answer the questions directly following. Upon acceptance, your member number will be sent to you in an email.

We're looking forward to having you as part of the Village.

All the best,
Penny R. Tupy
Founder and Coach Save Your Marriage Central
Founder and Director SYMC School of Coaching, SYMC Global Village

Code of Conduct for the Village Gathering online Discussion Bulletin Board

1. All members are to be treated with the utmost dignity and respect regardless of their marital status, race, creed, color, age, ethnicity, sexual orientation or lifestyle choices.

2. Differences of opinion are normal and natural. Respectful exploration and conversation regarding those differences is encouraged. No flaming or disrespect will be tolerated. Moderators have the responsibility and authority to take action as they see fit in the event of violations of the board rules.

3. SYMC is a marriage advocacy organization. While we recognize that there are times when divorce is inevitable our goal is to save the marriage and heal the relationship. We do not advise couples or individuals to seek divorce.

4. No matter what our position on a member's personal choices we will continue to treat them with respect and dignity and to remove ourselves from the situation if our own opinions make doing so impossible.

5. We understand that the dynamics of infidelity and marital pain will bring strong feelings and opinions to the surface. It is the policy of SYMC that safety is guaranteed for everyone who reads or posts to our site. Name calling, judging, disrespect or virtual violence of any sort is strictly disallowed.

6. Members are to be aware that online discussions create vulnerability within their own marriages and to be vigilant against creating relationships that endanger their marriage or someone else's.

7. The Code of Conduct also prohibits SYMC members from facilitating an affair in progress, e.g. giving advice designed to strengthen or build a romantic relationship to couples having an affair.

8. Sexually explicit information or conversations are prohibited and are grounds for immediate removal from the Village.

This is forum is for discussion and support only. It is not meant to replace or supplant professional coaching or counseling. SYMC Board Moderators and SYMC SoC Students are active members of the forum and their participation is in no way to be taken as professional advice. Penny also contributes to this board and her opinions and thoughts are to be taken as opinions only, not professional guidance, given with less than full information in a public venue. As such, SYMC assumes no liability for the outcome of advice procured at this site. If you need professional coaching please contact our office at 877.416.2657 to make an appointment.

We reserve the right to delete any message. Save Your Marriage Central also reserves the right to reveal your identity (or whatever information we know about you) in the event of a complaint or legal action arising from any message posted by you.

Thread Removal, Locking, and Deletion Policy

Threads that generate a signficant level of conflict and upset, as demonstrated by repeat violations of the ToS, may be closed (or "locked") at the moderators' discretion. These threads remain readable and in their original location, but no one can add to them or make changes to previous posts. We may re-open a locked thread if these conditions change.

We do not delete threads.

We may move threads if there is a significant reason to believe that they will cause harm in their original location. We prefer to edit posts to remove the possibility of harm over moving a thread. Examples of reasons to move threads are: fear of violence from the thread being read by another, legal issues, Protection Phase strategies being read by the other spouse, violation of privacy of another. We may also move a thread that generates other significant ethical concerns.

When we move a thread, we move it to an administrative storage area. In that area, the thread is locked and no one may change it.
Authors may delete or edit their own posts within any thread they can access (i.e., any thread that has not been moved or locked).