My husband and I have been married for 8 years and together for 12 years (well, we had some break ups along the way, but we always came back "home"). We have never spent a night separated (this does not include my taking care of my healing mother or having babies while he took care of our other little and the house). No, we do not have the perfect marriage, we have our fair share of problems. How do we handle them? We always say I love you before bed and we always sleep in the same bed, no matter how made we are at the other. We also believe in when something is broken, you fix it- not throw it away. That means, if it takes counseling to save our marriage and our family, we would do it. There are other benefits of marriage counseling, too!
Here are 5 Benefits of Marriage Counseling you may not be aware of:
1. You should be guarding your marriage meticulously, from the beginning. A marriage counselor can help you with this.
2. Marriage counseling can help couples navigate through the expectations they put on each other and make more realistic expectations, instead of super ones that we tend to place on our other half.
3. You can use marriage counseling as a "check-up" to make sure that your marriage is still in "great shape."
4. Marriage counseling can also help you work through financial obstacles, especially those that are creating havoc in your marriage.
5. Marriage counseling can work as a type of family therapy, helping you to make decisions and solve problems with your family as a whole, discipline, and more issues with children.
Marriage counseling should not be taboo. In a world where divorce, separation, and loveless marriages are on the rise, something has to give. Yes, marriage is not for everyone and not every couple should remain married, but wouldn't a neutral third party helping you decide this be better than just walking away and throwing something you have worked on for years in the trash?
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