Sentences with phrase «couples went to counseling»

When people think of couples going to counseling sessions together, often what first comes to mind is counseling to help couples who are already having issues or difficulties in their relationships, not couples just contemplating marriage.

Many couples go to counseling to help with issues such as consistent arguments, poor communication, difficulty in raising children, dissatisfaction with sex life, or maybe feeling distant from their partner («they just feel like my roommate»).

Not exact matches

Fast - forward to a couple of years later when my company nearly went under (twice) and I realized it was time to look around me for sage counsel.

Here are five reasons every couple should be going to marriage counseling, whether or not they feel like they're in a marriage crisis.

An increasingly common problem in counseling is that of the young couple married five to ten years who are fairly comfortable with each other but realize that the «spark» has gone out of their relationship.

In my community that I grew up in, when catholics were preparing to get married, they had to go to «couple counselling»..

Re the paying for counseling part, I went to a counselor for a couple years, and it was extremely helpful to my situation.

But most of those couples don't entertain the idea of divorce lightly — like Gwen and Chris, they spend a lot of time trying to make things work before they see divorce as the only option, even if they don't go to marital counseling (which doesn't always work).

Shackelford, 62, wrote that he had had «numerous affairs going back to the first two years» of his marriage and that the couple had «significant problems in their marriage for years, including three rounds of marital counseling that failed.»

«If a couple goes to a marriage counselor, who is not particularly skilled at conflict resolution, what happens if the couple argue over an issue raised in the counseling?»

If one partner in the relationship is unwilling to go for couple therapy, then individual counseling is suggested to work out the marriage.

Instead of forcing couples to go through pre-divorce counseling, why not look into why less people are getting married?

Specifically for on - going pregnancies, during pre-test counseling and prior to providing their informed consent, couples were informed that testing is targeted, that it will not reveal or report incidental findings and that it will only evaluate and report variants / mutations included in the aforementioned categories (see Materials and Methods).

Many couples Iâ $ ™ ve counseled fall into a rut of using food as their primary way of spending time together — going out to dinner, or for ice cream, ordering pizza, making brunchâ $ ¦ Try mixing things up and plan activities that don't revolve around food (go to a play, art gallery or museum, or do something active, like hiking, biking, or indoor rock climbing), or involve healthy eating (visit a farmerâ $ ™ s market instead of a food court).

In fact, it's totally normal: «Sixty - nine percent of the conflicts that come up between partners are always going to be ongoing issues,» says McNulty, who has been treating couples for over 25 years and is trained in the Gottman Method of Relationship Therapy, a research - focused approach to relationship counseling.

A couple went for marriage counseling for issues unrelated to jealousy.

We started going to couples counseling, and three years later I think we're both happy we were able to patch things up.»

The Short Version: When Talkspace Co-Founders Oren and Roni Frank went to couples counseling, it saved their marriage... (read more)

He agreed to go to couples counseling so he could get his point across (my therapist suggested we go).

How to Convince Your Partner to Go to Couples Counseling.

It does seem to be targeted at a slightly older audience, if only because it's about a group of couples who go to an island resort to participate in marriage counseling.

While charter schools begin with a lottery, that lottery process and the counseling the follows over the next couple of years has created, perhaps unintentionally, charter schools whose students would be the highest academic performing students wherever they went to school.

The «impasse» declaration was filed more than a couple of weeks ago, according to LAUSD Chief Labor and Employment Counsel Alex Molina, although he declined to provide a specific date or comment on how the process was going.

There is a significant percentage of clients who could go either debt settlement or credit counseling and these customers have to decide if they want to tighten their belts enough to afford credit counseling or save an extra couple hundred a month possibly and deal with the negatives and risks of settlement.

An open adoptions policy should be coupled with: 1) active help from staff or experienced volunteers in choosing an animal that is a good fit; 2) counseling (both orally and in handouts) at the time of adoption about training methods, how to introduce a new animal to strangers and other pets and where to go if problems arise; and 3) follow up calls to every adopter to answer questions and offer resources.

Many of the couples who attend have never gone to relationship counseling.

«I have met with a couple of the plaintiff class action firms who are counting the number of sleeps until July 1,» said Peter Clausi, executive vice president corporate affairs and general counsel at GTA Resources and Mining Inc. «I think they are going to wind up being the Wade Boggs of litigation — they're going to go to the hall of fame hitting singles.»

If the old model was, a lawyer comes out of law school and joins a firm, does a lot of grunt work in the first few years to not only sort of learn how to research, but learn how to think like a lawyer and learn how to really work for that firm and for a client; that model may be shifting more and more to lawyers going straight to in - house counsel, where they don't get the first couple of years of law firm training.

We had a couple of trials lined up where the judge and opposing counsel all stipulated to letting me use Google Glass and what it did allow you to do... by the way, the Google Glass that I was using was provided to me by Thomson Reuters, a big global company, by their head of global technology and I said I'd go ahead and give it a try.

If a marriage starts to head down a tumultuous path and become really difficult to bear, couples often go through counseling to try and save the marriage.

It seems that, certainly during my career, the way law firms handled litigation has changed significantly only in the day I have gone from a couple of lawyers at the table to huge teams, some of them at the table, some of them back in their home office, some of them up and sitting in a corporate counsel's office all following closely what's going on and I am sure that helped drive the evolution and the acceptance of your technology.

For example a list of counseling and ministry services, family foundations, and links to family law resources would be valuable to couples going through the divorce process and an excellent list for an attorney specializing in divorce matters to have on their website.

If there are no children, sometimes the couple will decide after the first six months or year of counseling that the relationship is too far gone to save.

«Some couples are hesitant to go because they think they do not have issues, or are afraid that counseling will dredge up issues that they didn't know existed.

Couples who commit to marriage therapy after going through discernment counseling will have identified the core areas that each spouse needs to work on, thereby focusing the therapy on what each person needs to change.

Should you have to be a certain age, earn a certain income, have a life plan, make premarital counseling mandatory, wait a certain amount of time after applying for a marriage license, take a test (of what, I'm not sure, but go with me here), take parenting classes if you plan to have kids (since society doesn't seem to care too much about childfree couples who divorce), learn how to communicate about finances, or all of the above?

Research studies have shown that individual relationship counseling — therapy with just one member of a couple — has shown as much relationship improvement as when both partners go to couples counseling together.

We also didn't want to go through the potentially expensive process of couples counseling if we didn't have specific issues we wanted to work on.

If more couples were required to attend counseling before going through with a divorce, it could have a positive impact on the divorce rate.

First go to couple counseling.

If he minimizes your feelings or tends to downplay his actions, it suggests he can not meet your emotional needs; I would then consider going to couples counseling or leaving the relationship altogether.

I had a friend that went to couples counseling with her husband but for some reason they could not click with the therapist and they tried things on their own and realized that they didn't need a therapist after all.

We have gone to marriage counseling three times here and a couple of months living elsewhere.

Barring a less critical situation, if the couple is wiling to go to counseling, that's a start and can be a stepping stone to restoring their marriage, if it is reparable.

Some church bodies, such as the Lutheran and Catholic churches, already require couples to go through premarital counseling.

Whether the couple chooses counseling or decides to work on their communication through a marriage - building workshop, the advantages of good communication go a long way toward strengthening a marriage.

But the reality is, in my professional opinion, is that couple's often show up to counseling 3 - 4 years after they probably should have initially gone.

According to New York Daily News, Karenna Gore Schiff, who is the daughter of former Vice President Al Gore, recently split up from her husband of 12 years and the estranged couple have been going to marriage counseling sessions.

(3) When the couple or family had emotional problems during the marriage, they jointly went to counseling or therapy; when the couple had financial problems, they jointly went to accountants; when the couple had legal issues, they jointly went to one attorney.

The court can order the couple to go through family counseling and can even name the counselor the couple must see.