Marriage Counseling Won’t Give You a Successful Marriage
When I first set up my practice to help people learn how to turn their marriage around and create a happy relationship, I was astounded by the number of people who had already been to marriage counselors and had failed. I thought my own experiences with marriage counseling were an unfortunate coincidence; my wife and I never found success with marriage counselors. Like everyone else who goes through the process of marriage counseling we were told it was our fault and we had no business being married to each other. The counselors who didn’t tell us this just wasted our time in some cases, while other counselors gave us “things to do” that eroded what little trust we had for each other. I can vividly remember my wife and I removing ourselves from the kids long enough to share our grievances with each other while the other actively listened. It was an absolute disaster! Yet that was common practice, and from what I hear it still is. Unfortunately most things in marriage counseling have little to do with marriage and therefore won’t produce a successful marriage. The people who are licensed and trained for marriage counseling are typically Freudian therapists … Read More…
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