Invest In Your Future Together
Successful relationships don’t just happen. They need to be tended to and supported, just like anything else worth having. Premarital counseling can help.
You put so much time, energy and resources into the physical aspects of the marriage (rings, engagement, wedding), why not put an equal amount into ensuring your future life together?
Just like you wouldn’t expect to have a brilliant career without first educating yourself and doing the work. The same is true for having a wonderful, harmonious marriage.
Premarital counseling helps partners create a foundation for their marriage. It will improve their ability to communicate with each other. It will help set realistic expectations for marriage.
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Establishing the Foundation for a Strong Marriage With Premarital Counseling
Let’s discuss the aspects of the foundation you are creating with premarital counseling:
Enhanced Communication: Premarital counseling teaches couples effective ways to communicate. This process ensures both partners feel heard and understood. This is crucial for addressing and resolving conflicts.
Conflict Resolution Skills: Couples learn strategies for handling disagreements. Partners will learn to understand each other’s conflict styles and triggers. Couples can manage disputes without damage to the relationship.
Alignment of Goals and Values: Premarital counseling helps couples align goals, values, and expectations. Couples learn about each other’s feelings and values about marriage, children, finances, and careers. This alignment prevents future conflicts and ensures mutual understanding.
Identification of Potential Issues: Premarital counseling provides a safe space for honest discussions. During the session, couples are able to discuss potentially sensitive issues. Areas such as finances, intimacy, beliefs, and family dynamics can be discussed. This will prevent key issues from being overlooked.
Strengthen Emotional Intimacy: Counseling offers a supportive environment for sharing. Couples share fears, expectations, and hopes. This strengthens emotional bonds. The resulting deepened intimacy helps sustain the relationship over the long term.
Developing Personal Growth: Each partner gains insights into their personal triggers and behaviors. This fosters personal growth and better mutual understanding.
Prevention of Divorce: Premarital counseling allows couples to address issues early. This can reduce the likelihood of future marital distress and divorce.
Establishing a Positive Start: Premarital counseling before marriage sets a proactive, positive tone. The relationship is set for a commitment to its long-term success.
Enhanced Coping Skills: Couples learn how to support each other. The tools learned help navigate through difficult times. This process enhances their ability to cope with life’s challenges together.
Family Planning and Parenting: Counseling can help discuss and plan roles for parenting and family dynamics. Partners can align their expectations and approaches before these issues arise.
By discussing differences and expectations before marriage, you and your partner can better understand and support each other during the marriage.
For many couples a successful step in premarital counseling is to take an evidenced based assessment, developed by Prepare-Enrich. This assessment process, developed by Dr. David Olson and his wife, Karen Olson is one of the most widely used and respected programs used.
Over 5,000,000 couples have benefited from the evidenced-based tool. Working with the certified facilitator, Danielle Bruns, MCP, LMFT, couples will have a customized strength-oriented assessment and skill building exercises. This process can start you on the best path toward the relationship you want to build together.
By discussing differences and expectations before marriage, you and your partner can better understand and support each other during the marriage.
