I know, you have just gotten engaged and you are planning your wedding, you are on your way to Happily Ever After Land. The last thing you want to think about is a marriage counselor. Everything is already perfect, and marriage counseling is for grouchy old people who want a divorce.
Well, I used to agree with you.
Marriage counseling is not just for people whose marriages are falling apart. It's also for those who are getting married, who are recently married, who have been married a million years. Counseling is about building a tool box and learning to communicate with your sweetheart.
Personal Story Alert: I have been to marriage counseling. It's not that my husband and I fought a lot. it was quite the opposite, we never fought. We also never discussed important things. we operated on a friendship basis only. Now, we didn't know it then, but we were in a very slow sinking ship. When hard times came, we didn't know how to work with each other to get through them. We almost didn't make it through.
Now, Imagine if we had begun our marriage with some marriage counseling, we would have started off our marriage with skills and an understanding of how to relate to each other. We would have had a very different 8 years of marriage leading up to that point.
I am glad that we got the help when we did. If you are interested in marriage counseling ask me in our session. I can recommend some amazing counselors in the area.
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