Why Should You Take Marriage Counseling Before Getting Married

There are a lot of benefits associated with going to couples therapy before you marry your partner, and there are many newly engaged couples out there who are taking advantage of these benefits. Pre-marriage counselling can help you communicate, discuss and resolve past issues, learn how to solve problems better, and get to know each other on a deeper level.

According to research, engaged couples who go to pre-marital counselling have a 30% higher marriage success rate than couples who didn’t seek out this professional guidance before they tied the knot.

Don’t wait until your marriage is rocky before you seek out counselling. The best thing to do is learn how to communicate, understand each other on a deeper level and prevent potential issues from coming up in the future.

There are many benefits that show why counselling for engaged couples can be highly beneficial.

Learn How to Communicate Effectively

One big problem that comes up in marriage is the couple’s inability to communicate effectively with each other. Couples who don’t understand how to speak with one another will be setting their marriage up for failure. Healthy communication is the key to a happy, healthy marriage. You and your partner should be able to speak about anything to one another. You should be able to talk about your day, the future, money and other heavier topics. Learning how to communicate in couples therapy before getting hitched will help set you two up for a healthy relationship now and in the future.

Be Able to Discuss Past Issues

Another benefit of pre-marital counselling is that it allows partners to discuss issues in the past. Otherwise, these issues could continue to go unmentioned, and therefore, unresolved. Having discussions about past issues is important because romantic and familial relationships from the past can carry over emotional baggage into the coming marriage. Learning how to cope with the past can give you a good idea of how you should react and respond to specific circumstances with your spouse. Being able to openly discuss issues can teach you how to comfort and reassure your spouse.

Get to Know Each Other Better

You might think you know your partner pretty well if you are about to marry them, but taking couples therapy before your marriage can help you get to know them on an even deeper understanding. Couples therapy will dive deeper into how your partner really feels about marriage, gender roles, spiritual beliefs, forgiveness and even more.

Talk About Any Potential Problems

It’s not unusual for newly engaged couples to have rose coloured glasses on when it comes to their partner. Going to couples therapy before marriage will help both people recognize any potential problems that might come up in the future. Things like anger issues, addictions and other potential problems can be brought to light during premarital counselling. Knowing and understanding these problems before you get married will help couples think about a plan on how to handle these issues if they ever do come up.

Here at Somatic Psyche, therapist Daphne Georghiou believes in teaching her clients the devices to benefit a relationship for the long-term instead of interim solutions. Call Daphne Georghiou today for a consultation and see just how much difference pre-marital therapy can make for you as a couple.