Marriage: Marriage Counseling and How It Can Help
Posted: Tuesday, October 06, 2009
by Krystal Kuehn
New Day Counseling
Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success. ~ Henry Ford
Good marriages are the very backbone of healthy and happy families. Keeping marriages strong and working through challenges successfully can help a family thrive. Marriages are constantly faced with challenges today. Whether it is communication problems, infidelity, parenting, substance abuse, or loss of a family member, marriage counseling has many benefits. Not only does marriage counseling help in working through problems, it enhances relationships and opens up lines of communication. One of the most common complaints of couples is that they do not feel heard or understood by their partners. A marriage therapist can help couples communicate in such a way that they can understand, accept, and respect one another's perspective. They can begin to feel safe in sharing their feelings and thoughts. They can draw closer than they thought possible.
Marriage counseling has many benefits to those who want to build strong, healthy, and happy marriages. Great relationships do not just happen. There is investment involved, that is, investment of time, effort, and sacrifice. Some of the most successful marriages are those that have undergone some of the most difficult times and committed to work on them together.
Getting help to improve or save a marriage is one of the wisest, most loving things a couple can do for their own well-being, for their children and families, and for their future. No marriage need suffer from the pressures of unresolved problems that lead to even bigger problems. H elp is always available and it can make a major difference for life!
Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads which sew people together through the years. ~Simone Signoret
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Krystal Kuehn, MA, LPC, LLP, NCC is a licensed professional counselor, author, teacher, and musician. She specializes in helping people live their best life now, reach their full potential, overcome barriers, heal from their past, and develop a lifestyle of health, happiness, and love. Krystal is the cofounder of New Day Counseling, a premier counseling center specializing in marriage counseling, and BeHappy4Life.com, an award-winning site where you can find hundreds of free resources, online workshops, video presentations, insights, and inspiration.
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Top-level comments on this article: (2 total)Wish I could agree;I now do hypnotherapy and in my years of practice,I've always heard from myriad marriage counselors, that the marriage counseling process ends up in more divergence, than restoration, of a troubled marriage,AFTER counseling, that more healthy separations occur, than reconciliations,by statistics,, by virtue of , and because of, self actualization,respectively(both are healed and both do now go their own ways ,as separate ,now healthier, distinct beings.)PaulThat's very sad Paul and the very first time I heard such a negative report. It is the opposite of my experience. I suppose it all depends of who you are getting your information from. Marriage is the most important institution and we at New Day Counseling have positive results as do many other outstanding counseling practices. All the best to you and your experience in helping others :)
Henry Ford,in your quoting him, was most likely talking about his organized, ensemble, factory produced car institutions,which lined his pockets.(His own marriage was a dismal public sham with his dalliances)Marriage counseling's goal of personal therapy and growth towards self actualization isnt necessarily"a negative report";people fall IN love and fall OUT of love,with the same enigmatic precipitants.If nothing else,50 percent nationwide divorce statistics underline what Ive just told you.I think that with some thought,you'll agree that NOTHING lasts forever,not even very good things;paulThanks Paul for sharing your thoughts. You identified counseling goals as personal therapy and growth toward self actualization. Personally, I think it is so much more. It's too much to get into here. However, I do appreciate your comments. Also, I believe one thing lasts forever and that is God's love. Bless you, KrystalSuch an evasion merely piques my interest;How could it be "too much to get into ,here",as this site is especially designed for such specifics,in illumination of such needful subjects?I shall defer,but you have my total heartfelt agreement about God's love being,eternal and infinite(anyone who claims,for any reason, that God is"jealous,vindictive,vengeful,wrathful"is just chock full of wild blueberry muffins,pure and simple;Many thanks for the splendid efforts that you put in to help failing marriages;PaulGood point Paul. I should have given you some direction to where you can find helpful information that can hopefully direct you to understanding how to apply and practice skills that improve relationships and well-being. Personally, I don't think we see things eye to eye because we're coming from very different places, so this information may not be helpful to you. However, I direct those readers to BeHappy4Life who want some great tools for a postive life. Take care and many thanks to you too Paul :)I do think that ,here,again,you're correct;Great minds do NOT always think,alike;Some marriages,maybe even most,are not fated to last by divine intervention;ones spouse may simply be instrumental,in ones life, to teach one lessons about negativity that one must needs learn,in God's plan of things ;affection:paul
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