Most people who
go to marriage counseling get divorced, so it's more often the last rites than the path to happily - ever - after.
Not exact matches
I have seen too many
marriages destroyed because the husband (or the wife)
goes to their cross-gender friend
to let off a little steam about their spouse,
to get a little support and
counsel from their friend.
Meanwhile, we have
to sit though two hours of frantic
marriage counselling when we could see from the
get -
go this was not on.
This is great news, because it is much more often the woman who is willing
to go to counseling or a
marriage education program, and it is much more often the woman who files for divorce if nothing
gets better.
Meanwhile, their spouse (in this case, you)
get all hopeful because you think you're
going to marriage counseling to actually work on your
marriage.
It's almost impossible
to get unwilling spouses
to go to a
marriage counseling therapists session with you, unless they are ordered by the court.
I
get that your husband doesn't want
to go to marriage counseling.
While it's too bad that your husband won't
go to marriage counseling, that doesn't mean that you can't
get your own counselor.
What seems counter intuitive
to me, though, is that seeking
counseling after the death of a loved one has no stigma attached, while many individuals
going through divorce believe
getting therapy after the death of a
marriage does.
In the meantime, your spouse may continue
to try
to get you
to go to marriage counseling, couples» retreats, and any other program that might possibly repair your
marriage.
The truth is it is no more a sign of weakness
to seek
marriage counseling than it is
to go get a cast on a broken bone.
Will you join me
to going to marriage counseling where we can
get help
to sort all of this out and
get back
to feeling close
to each other?»
If you are
going into
marriage counseling with your mind already made up about
getting a divorce, you probably aren't
going to come out of your therapy sessions feeling successful.
Have you tried
to cajole your husband into
going to marriage counseling and
gotten a dismayed, «We don't need that.»
I just wanted
to thank you for
going over the benefits of
getting marriage counseling after an affair.
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Counseling Choosing A Counselor / Coach for Your
Marriage / Relationship Should we
go to private counseling to to a Getting the Love You Want workshop for couple
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counseling to to a Getting the Love You Want workshop fo
counseling to to a
Getting the Love You Want workshop for couples?
It's important
to not let
getting married the primary goal of
going for premarital
counselling, but the main goal should be,
to build a loving, lasting, healthy, strong
marriage.
Going for couples
counselling might seem like you have failed at your
marriage, but I personally feel that even couples who seem
to be
getting along well can stem
to learn much from a
counselling session.
If you were
to get a room of divorced couples together and ask them if they received
marriage counseling advice and if so, why didn't it work, we're willing
to bet that most of them will admit that they
went to see a counselor too late into their
marriage.
One important thing
to remember as you look at
marriage counseling statistics and wonder whether couples therapy can be successful for you: many, if not most, couples don't
go to counseling until their problems have
gotten seriously bad.
I tried
to get him
to go to marriage counseling.
Marriage counseling can help you
get to the bottom of what's
going on in your relationship.
My husband and I are having some hard times lately, and we would like
to go to marriage counseling to help us
get through them.