Premarital Counseling

Premarital counseling helps couples clarify their relationship values and beliefs. It also helps couples to build skills for ongoing communication and discussion. 

Before you decide to tie the knot, you may want to test the ropes. Marriage is an incredible commitment and is not to be taken lightly. When you are falling in love and deciding to commit, you may not be so quick to work through issues that arise.

That’s not abnormal, but it’s not the best strategy for longevity. In premarital counseling, you will be proactively breaking down unhealthy behaviors and patterns that could jeopardize your marriage. 

Did you know the average marriage lasts 7 years? Did you also know that the average partner waits 6 years to bring up any complaints?

At first, the problem isn’t that bad and then it becomes annoying. Before you know it, you are filing for divorce and you don’t even recognize the person you married.

Premarital counseling prepares you for the long haul.

Plan Ahead for Handling Differences Along the Way

Though it may not seem important now, or easy to say, “I’m sure that will be easy for us,” it’s much better to talk through these things with your future spouse now. 

Once you’re actually faced with value dilemmas as a couple, your relationship may be stressed due to finances or other reasons or you may be shocked to find out that you don’t agree.

Exploring premarital questions isn’t about stirring the pot, but rather thinking through things and becoming aware of the little things you might not have even realized you care about. It's also as simple as setting realistic expectations for both of you. 

Having these difficult conversations now in an open, loving way paves the road for a healthy, long-term relationship.

You may also get started with a couple assessment to see where each of you fall on core life dimensions. Personality assessments are also available. 

Premarital counseling sessions build a foundation for a successful marriage.

They’re important not only because they give you another glimpse into your compatibility, but because they will affect the lives of your future children. If you are on opposite sides of the fence in a lot of ways when it comes to parenting, your future family life will be strengthened and enhanced by premarital relationship counseling.

Counseling sessions help couples identify and explore answers to these questions and plan for handling differences along the way.

Engaged couples taking the time to explore these questions prior to marriage find it easier to successfully navigate challenges that arise later in their relationship.

Strengthen Your Relationship Bond

One of the best benefits to premarital counseling is that it can strengthen the bond you have with one another.

Learning how to communicate with one another in an effective way, understanding your own and your partner’s needs and how to meet them, and simply talking together about the big things can reinforce and strengthen the connection you have.

Build a Healthy Relationship Bond

Having a stable, healthy relationship has been shown to positively impact:

• your physical health,
• your mental health,
• increased resiliency and of course,
• your quality of life.

Investing in a solid foundation is well worth it for the long-term!

A healthy marriage contributes to a healthy life. Engaging in premarital counseling can help protect your relationship for long-term success.

If one or both of you already has children, parenting issues or questions about blending a family or step-parenting may have already surfaced. It can be confusing both for parents and children!

Premarital therapy incorporates skills common to couples therapy, marriage counseling and family therapy on roles and relationships, effective parenting, communication skills, and boundary setting.

Marrying couples may also want to discuss co-parenting and how to involve your partner in the process. It’s normal to experience difficult emotions when blending a family. It can be helpful to process these and ensure you have a solid foundation as you build your family together.

Pre marriage counseling can address your questions and concerns about blending a family, step-parenting and how to help your children transition smoothly. There are a number of factors to explore such as rituals and traditions, roles and responsibilities, managing schedules and time together, relationship expectations and parenting issues, difficulty accepting a new parent, and of course changes in family relationships.

Learning communication skills from the beginning and ways to strengthen the bonds with children and each other can go a long way in establishing a solid foundation for your new family.

Our premarital counseling providers are licensed therapists with specialized marriage and family counseling and couples counseling training. They have worked extensively with couples at various stages of their relationship. They understand the roadblocks couples often encounter along the way as well as the benefit of building communication skills, coping skills, and conflict resolution skills from the beginning.

Further, learning to utilize couples counseling and relationship coaching as a resource is an excellent tool for your marriage.

Think of it as going to the doctor when you get sick. We aren’t taught relationship skills in school. It’s normal to experience bumps along the way when you’re communicating, bonding and partnering with another person. Relationship counseling is there to teach you skills you haven’t learned elsewhere.

We are proud members of Twogether In Texas for premarital counseling. Partnering with this program means your marriage license fee is waived upon completion of pre marriage counseling.