July 8–12, 2027 Barbados

$500 holds your room · payment plans available

Only 2 swim-up suites left

Hold Our Room — $500

Who Comes To This

You want married friends. Real ones, who get what this season of life is like.

You need an actual vacation — five days where nothing is your job.

You want coaching that hands you tools, not a diagnosis.

You would rather be in a room full of couples than alone at a resort.

What is said in this room does not leave this room.

Every couple makes the same verbal agreement out loud on day one. Coaching sessions are led by a licensed professional, and how much you share is always yours to decide. The Affirmation Ceremony asks you to declare your love out loud — not your problems.

This is celebration and enrichment, not crisis intervention — not the right setting for active addiction or abuse.

If that is where you are, reach out anyway. We would rather point you toward the right help than take your deposit.

50 couples maximum — so breakout rooms stay small enough to matter

About the Retreat

July 8–12, 2027 · Sandals Royal Barbados

Eight experiences. Each one designed. None of them read like a hotel amenity.

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Past Retreats

What Five Days Actually Looks Like

It begins before you expect it to. The first evening is ours — a gathering, an introduction, the moment fifty strangers become something more. You walk in as a couple. You leave as part of a community.

A full day of doing the actual work — not listening to someone talk about doing the work. Paul Bashea Williams leads. You and your partner, in a room full of couples who showed up the same way you did. You will leave knowing things about each other you didn't know when you arrived.

Small groups. A facilitator. The kind of conversation that doesn't happen at the dinner table. You pick the topic. You go as deep as you want. Most couples go deeper than they planned.

We won't spoil it. Come with an open mind and your partner.

A chartered yacht. Fifty couples. Open water, open bar, music. The particular joy of dancing with your person somewhere the ocean has no walls.

A professional photographer. The beach. The golden hour. You two, finally in a photo together that isn't a selfie.

On the fourth night you will stand in front of fifty couples and choose each other again — out loud. Then we eat, and we celebrate, and nobody goes to bed early.

Club Level at Sandals Royal Barbados. Adults-only. All-inclusive. Oceanfront. The room is extraordinary. It is also the least important thing in your registration.

Sandals Royal
Barbados.

Perched on the legendary platinum west coast of Barbados, Sandals Royal Barbados is an adults-only all-inclusive sanctuary where turquoise Caribbean waters meet world-class luxury. Twenty-one restaurants, 14 bars, 11 pools, a rooftop infinity pool, bowling alley, scuba diving, and the kind of butler service that makes every need disappear before you voice it.

Guests also enjoy access to the neighboring Sandals Barbados — two world-class resorts, one extraordinary week. This is where Thrive in Love calls home in July 2027.

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From Our Couples

Couples per retreat, in order. Nobody has ever had to convince the second group — the first group did it for us.

Barbados is our fifth. It is the first one we have ever opened to fifty couples.

Who Needs This Retreat

Who Is Leading This

What You're Actually Buying

Everything below is already included in your registration.

These are not add-ons and not extra charges. Each figure is what that experience would cost you to book on your own — so you can see what you are actually getting.

Included in your registration

Cost if you booked it yourself

Couples therapy with a licensed clinician runs $150–250 a session. Six months of weekly sessions is $3,600 to $6,000 — and you drive there, in your own city, after work, on a Tuesday.

Here you get a licensed clinical therapist for five days — plus every item above, plus the resort, plus fifty couples doing the same work beside you.

Fifty couples choosing each other again, in the same room, on the same night.

The resort is bookable by anyone. This is not. You can book the room — you cannot book the room.

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Reserve — $500 Deposit

Reserve — $500 Deposit

From Past Retreats

Your Host

CEO & Co-Founder, Black Marriage Club / Room Two Relate

"Love does not just survive in isolation. It thrives when it has community, intention, and a room designed to hold it."

Flights, rooms &
travel logistics?

Contact our partnering travel agency for all travel-related questions including flights, room bookings, and trip coordination.

Speakers, sponsors
& retreat activities?

For all retreat programming inquiries — speaking opportunities, sponsorships, and retreat activities — reach out to Black Marriage Club directly.

Questions

July 8–12, 2027 · Sandals Royal Barbados