Will counseling help my marriage?
Ask any veteran couple and they will tell you, “A good marriage takes work.” The vast majority of couples experiencing divorce never seek counseling to help with their issues. Unfortunately, even those couples who do seek marriage therapy generally wait six years from the first signs of distress. In my experience, couples at this stage tend to have deeply rooted negative patterns that end up taking more time and effort for change to occur. The obvious conclusion, then, is the sooner a couple seeks help, th
1) Difficult conversations lead to the same negative patterns of escalated emotions and shutting down.