Protecting Family Values in the Heartland – Governor Vilsack Signs Marriage Fidelity Day Proclamation
With the stroke of a pen Governor Vilsack made a strong statement in support of marriage and family last week when he proclaimed September 15 as Marriage Fidelity Day in Iowa. Iowa is the second state to formally recognize the day with a gubernatorial proclamation.
Des Moines, IA (PRWEB via PR Web
Direct) September 17, 2004 -- With the stroke of a pen Governor Vilsack made
a strong statement in support of marriage and family last week when he
proclaimed September 15 as Marriage Fidelity Day in Iowa. Iowa is the second
state to formally recognize the day with a gubernatorial proclamation.
In this day and age when infidelity is all around us, from reality TV to
special CNN reports, a Wisconsin woman decided to do something about it
-launching a national campaign to declare September 15 as Marriage Fidelity Day.
Penny Tupy, professional marriage coach and founder/director of SYMC (Save Your
Marriage Central) Global Village Inc., brainstormed the idea for a national day
to take a stand for keeping one’s vows of forsaking all
others.
Infidelity affects more than sixty percent of the marriages in
the US with the number of women having affairs increasing drastically. “I want
to do for affairs what MADD did for drinking and driving,” says Tupy. “The goal
for Marriage Fidelity Day is to create a public shift in attitude where
remaining faithful and monogamous becomes cool, and cheating is socially
unacceptable. We address that by taking a multi faceted approach. We celebrate
those who have remained faithful as well as those who have strayed and returned
to the marriage, doing the very hard and very courageous work of recovery. We
take the position that an affair is not a love story, it’s a tragedy. We are
working to raise awareness of the risk factors for having an affair and how to
avoid them.”
Tupy comes to do battle armed with personal experience. She
was the wayward spouse in her first marriage and knows first hand the pain and
grieving that affects every member of the triangle, as well as their families.
Her website and online discussion forum are unique in the plethora of online
marriage self help resources in that she refuses to take a judgmental position
against the people caught in the web of an affair. Choosing instead to advocate
for integrity and respect while insisting that infidelity is not acceptable. “An
affair is almost always an attempt to solve a problem in one’s life,” she says.
“But it’s an unethical solution in that everyone gets hurt and no one ends up
happy. That doesn’t make the people who have affairs evil or malicious, it makes
them sad and hurt and confused. I know. I’ve been there.”
Earlier this
month Governor Murkowski of Alaska became the first to sign the Marriage
Fidelity Day Proclamation. Iowa is the second. The initiative will heat up in
2005 as volunteers at SYMC contact every governor in the US. Also coming up in
2005 are plans for activities and events to celebrate Marriage Fidelity Day
around the country.
Tupy’s dream for Marriage Fidelity Day is that it
will give couples tools to avoid becoming a marital statistic. For those
marriages where infidelity has already rocked their lives she offers hope and
solutions for healing their marriages and keeping their families together. She
calls these couples, the ones who have stayed faithful or who have strayed and
recovered, the unsung heroes of our time.
For more information about
Marriage Fidelity Day visit the site at www.marriagefidelityday.org or contact Penny Tupy at
651.775.8302
About SYMC
SYMC is a multi-faceted organization which
specializes in helping marriages overcome infidelity. The stated goal is to
“Change the face of how marriages are healed worldwide.” Services and projects
include professional coaching for marriages in crisis, a School of Coaching,
packages of support services for clients, grassroots activism such as Marriage
Fidelity Day, and a global network of Volunteers known as the Village. SYMC was
started in 2002 by Penny Tupy and has grown from a simple coaching practice to a
worldwide presence.
CONTACT INFORMATION:
Penny R. Tupy
Founder and
Director SYMC
877.416.2657
www.symcinc.com
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