Should You Get Premarital Counseling?
So, should you get premarital counseling? In short: yes! Every couple can benefit from premarital counseling before they walk down the aisle. It’s much like preventative medicine versus acute care – wouldn’t you much rather take measures now to ensure your relationship’s health than have to reach out for help when things are bad? But just in case you need more convincing, here are some signs that you and your future spouse should definitely participate in premarital counseling.
Staying Together for the Children?
Unfortunately, there’s no manual for divorce; no clear-cut, black-and-white rule book that gives you step-by-step guidelines for navigating this season of your life. But there are a few indicators that will help guide you to an answer. If you and your partner are considering a divorce but hesitating for the sake of the kids, consider these questions from our blog.
In-Laws Interfering in Your Marriage?
Stopping your in-laws from interfering with your marriage will take work – sometimes a lot of it if you’re dealing with particularly anxious in-laws. While you and your spouse will have to work as a team to overcome in-law drama, it’s certainly possible to “in-law proof” your marriage, and remain happy together.
Dreaming of a Post-Pandemic Relationship?
At the beginning of quarantine, there was a bit of panic about how couples would be able to maintain stability within their relationship under these new conditions. There was a time when it was very easy to find blogs writing about how the pandemic has resulted in an increase in divorces and a decrease in marriages. But if you were to take a closer look, many would see that that isn’t the complete picture. While it is true that there has been a decrease in marriages in the past year, that has more to do with so many venues and businesses being closed down for most of the year.
How Can Marriage Therapy in NYC Help Your Relationship?
When couples face these make-or-break moments, marriage therapy is often recommended by friends and family. It may even be a path you have considered pursuing on your own. However, engaging in marriage and family therapy in NYC brings along a list of questions and considerations. You may wonder, what is the success rate of marriage counseling? Or even, does marriage therapy really work?
Managing Finances in Your Relationship
Couples have different financial stressors. If you are like many couples, you may struggle with your spouse spending while you want to save every dime you own, or the other way around. Some couples find that both partners have different sensitivities from their history, what we call schemas, that cause their finance issues, such as one spouse being a pessimist, seeing the work with a negative filter that assumes the worst, while the other partner falls into approval-seeking, seeking status that they think will somehow secure their worth to other people they view as important.
Time to Strengthen Your Marriage?
Even in the best of times, marriages and love relationships take time and effort to sustain. However, the pandemic has strained even the healthiest of relationships. If you are like a lot of couples, you probably have been struggling with your partner or spouse as you both try to work, take care of your kids, cope with possible financial stressors, and fight over other pressures that cause stress, all of which may have taken a toll on your relationship.
