Good Marriage? Would you consider marriage counseling to make your marriage even stronger? (man, love)
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I heard an 18 year old telling me he was at a chiropractor the other day. He said they would like to see him every week to do more adjusting.
OF COURSE THEY WOULD!!! DUH!!!
I think if you were to go to a doctor for marriage reasons he will cater to the one that is paying the bill. They only want to hear what they want to hear. You cannot tell them the solution. I mean, come on, you want them to come back right. You want to make more money off them right? ?
I knew someone once who was a marriage counselor and he told me that by the time the couple went to him the marriage was already in such bad shape that his job was almost impossible. The marriage counselor would have preferred that the couples would have come to him when their marriage was still basically strong but needed some fine tuning.
Have you been to a marriage counselor and would you consider going to one if your marriage was basically good? Or would you wait until there was serious problems?
That marriage counseling...that's a funny kind of business. What he's saying is kind of true, though. Just don't think marriage counseling is the answer for a good marriage.
I think a couple who has a good, basically sound marriage would be better served through attending one or more of those marriage encounter weekends put on through various sponsors. New Life Ministries has a good one for couples, the Catholic Church has Marriage Encounter and Retrovaille for the more problematic unions. there are others. From what I understand of them, they teach you a skill set of how to maintain your marriage. You get to share about your relationship with other married couples at the weekend. I think there are some writing exercises for the couple and other activities. Then there are weekly or follow up support group meetings after the weekend. Good luck. You're thinking right. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. (because a pound of cure, obtained too late, is worthless).
yeah, God and a fun weekend together is the answer to a good marriage, not open honest communication.
Honest communication is one of the skills taught. Sometimes, a year into the marriage you may discover your partner has issues with honesty, for various reasons.
Honest communication is one of the skills taught. Sometimes, a year into the marriage you may discover your partner has issues with honesty, for various reasons.
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Nope, but ya gotta start somewhere. At least it will open the door. It's better than fighting, and it's better than putting yourselves in a finger pointing blame game setting. Idid say there was a weekly support group after the Encounter Weekend, but I guess you tripped over that detail in the rush to argue with me.
Medically, no. But medicalization is a social phenomenon, not a medical one, and it applies to all kinds of therapy, even those that don't involve drugs or consultation with a physician. Medicalization is a process by which increasingly, life's ordinary difficulties are seen as not merely problems, but pathology. It is characterized by an ever-increasing involvement of "specialists" in addressing such problems. And in fact, when it comes to medicalization, psychotherapy and its off-shoots are the biggest culprits.
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