Marriage Counseling

I loved pre-marital counseling! We did ours with our pastor. It was really helpful in showing us our different love languages and personalities, and how our personalities affect our love languages and how we give / receive love. I highly recommend it to all engaged couples.

I didn't do it, but i've heard it is highly recommended that couples do it before getting married.

We are doing pre-marital counseling with our priest and I absolutely CANNOT wait. I am very excited for this step in the process. I have heard from other family members that it really opens up your heart and mind to what the other is feelings etc... I just cannot wait. Good luck and please let us know how yours goes?

I will!! Thank you ❤️

I'm getting married Nov 9, 2019 and very interested in doing pre-marital counseling! I think it will help strengthen our relationship, especially heading into this new chapter of our life together.

I think pre-marital counseling is super valuable (if not done through a religious institution), especially to learn about your different love languages, your communication styles, your personal insecurities, how to argue respectfully etc.
We haven’t done counseling, but we are continuously working on our relationship, since we started dating. We refer a lot to PhD John Gottman’s books, workbooks & newsletter (one of the top relationship experts in the country). We read them together & then discuss with each other on regular basis. His work is amazing! He also runs 2-day couples workshops, which we plan to attend soon. I highly recommend his book The Seven Principles for Making a Marriage Work, his website thegottmaninstitute.com, newsletter Marriage Minute, and their question card decks. And also some other fun workbooks like 101 Quizzes for Couples (Amazon), with great questions to really get to know each other on deep level while having fun.

I am currently in pre-marital counseling with my fiancé, and I have found it super helpful! We have learned how to bring up difficult issues, learned our love languages, how to talk budgets and dreams and goals, etc. I strongly recommend it for anyone, whether they are having issues or not. I think it has been helpful for us so far, and we already had a strong relationship!

My fiancé and I have been together 3.5 years, we are getting married in May and we have been going to a counselor. We aren’t religious so we decided to find a couples counselor to use as premarital counseling and we love it! It has definitely helped us communicate better and made our relationship stronger. It took some convincing to get my fiancé to go but now I think he likes going more than I do!

My exhusband and I did premarital counseling as part of requirement to get married in his church. I’m not religious and it was geared that way, so I hated the requirement and got very little out of the “How will you bring God into your Union?” Aspect of it...Which was most of it.

My husband and I did counseling with out pastor and it was helpful!

Thank you everyone! ❤️

We did couples' counseling with a therapist and found it very helpful. We intend to go back at some point. We called it our "tune up".

We also attended pre-cana, and did NOT find that helpful. The styles are very different, so you might want to think about what you want from pre-marital counseling. If you want religious-based advice, then you need to go through your place of worship. If you want psychology-based advice, then you need a secular therapist.