Did you just get engaged?

Are you and your partner looking to take your relationship to the next level of committment?

Whether you are engaged and preparing for marriage, exploring your future together or wanting to work through discerning strengths and challenges in your relationship to better understand if you are wanting to commit to a future together, couple counseling can help offer additional support in this chapter of your relationship. Counseling while dating or engaged can help set the foundation for a more secure and connected relationship in the future. 

Couple counseling while dating or engaged can help you and your significant other improve your relationship by helping you develop better communication skills, learn conflict management, uncover your shared core values as well as identify differences that could create future conflict and find ways to work through these with understanding and respect. Working with a therapist, you can discuss expectations with your partner that will help better prepare both of you for a future together.

So if these sound like you…

• You and your partner have arguments that don't get resolved
• You feel like you're always the one who has to compromise to keep the peace
• You're concerned about how differnences between the two of you will affect you as a long-term couple
• You're worried about losing affection or having a diminished sex life
• You want to find healthier ways to resolve conflict
• You want to talk through finances, role and responsibility discrepancies in the relationship, desire discrepacies, or struggles with future in-laws or influences outside the relationship that impact the relationship. 
• You want to define your marital roles and expectations

…Then premarital counseling can be a great benefit to both you and your partner.

The intimate nature of marriage requires that you talk to your partner about everything, no matter how awkward or uncomfortable. Premarital counseling will help you learn how to be a better listener, and how to make your voice and your needs be heard in a productive and positive manner.

Premarital counseling will also show you how to handle conflict in your marriage. When you live with someone, you will have arguments ranging from the very mundane to more serious issues. How you argue will be a part of the story of how you are as a couple. Learn how to de-escalate arguments and how to fight fairly, so you don't cause emotional pain from things you said that you'll never be able to take back.

In pre-marital counseling, we will likely bring up topics that you've discussed with your partner previously, as well as subjects you hadn't considered before. This fresh perspective from an objective third party will uncover new details from your partner. This is also an excellent time for us to find unexpected areas where you disagree, and give you the tools to handle possible future conflict.

Getting married is one of life's most treasured experiences. Premarital counseling can help you and your partner turn that momentous occasion into a loving, lasting relationship. For guidance and support to strengthen your future marriage, please contact us today so we can schedule an appointment.