Take a proactive approach – work hard now to build a strong relationship foundation
Finding the person you want to spend the rest of your life with can be the most rewarding and uplifting experience, but that doesn’t mean your relationship won’t require time and effort. All relationships, including healthy, loving relationships, demand constant hard work. Therapists at the Couples Institute of Santa Barbara will teach you techniques for sustaining your relationship and continuing on in a happy marriage for years to come.
What Premarital Counseling Consists of:
- Obtain a thorough assessment of your committed relationship
- Recognize the strengths that exist in your marriage; understand why they exist and learn how to strengthen them even more
- Identify areas in need of improvement in the relationship
- Learn how to strengthen the foundation of your best-friendship, intimacy, and passion
- Learn about the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse: what signs in a relationship could predict divorce and the antidotes to effective communication and conflict management
- Learn the skills of healthy compromise and the difference between solvable or perpetual problems
- Identify areas of shared meaning and purpose in the relationship which will bond you together over time