Have you tried to cajole your husband
into going to marriage counseling and gotten a dismayed, «We don't need that.»
Not exact matches
On rare occasions, some people who being divorce mediation decide
to go into marriage counseling and stay together.
To me, it is a statement that the
marriage is in trouble and could perhaps end in a divorce unless the parties
go into counseling.
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.
Like other online relationship
counseling options, with the Power of Two Online you don't have
to sit in a counselor's waiting room with other patients, you're not
going to accidentally run
into someone you know at the doctor's office, and you don't have
to sit in a room with a total stranger and talk about your
marriage.
Couples that
go into marriage counseling to repair current challenges and prevent future problems are far more successful in reaching their relationship goals than couples who are seeking services in a last attempt
to avoid a divorce.
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.
Now if we were seeing both of you in
marriage counseling, we would be able
to go deeper
into these assumptions.
And so we asked Matt Staver, who runs the Liberty
Counsel and
goes into court for them — they're the group opposing gay
marriage that
went into court in California —
to briefly explain
to us what arguments he is actually using in court, the legal arguments
to defend a traditional
marriage clause.
If your spouse won't
go to marriage counseling, you might feel betrayed or unwanted, but pushing your spouse
into counseling against his or her will can be just as damaging as the problems that led you
to therapy in the first place.
With an online program you don't have
to sit in a counselor's waiting room with other patients, you're not
going to accidentally run
into someone you know at the doctor's office, and you don't have
to talk about your
marriage with total strangers as you do with in - person, remote, or group
counseling sessions.