Marriage Counselling is by no means a magic wand that will make all your relationship problems disappear.
As with any self-help book, inspirational DVD or interesting and useful advice, marriage counselling is only as effective as you choose to make it. You can have a whole collection of books in your library on how to better your understanding of one another, but if you don’t actually make the time to read the books and try to apply the knowledge actively in your life – it cannot and will not be of any use to you.
Therefore, when you decide to come for marriage counselling, make very sure of your motives. Marriage counselling will help you understand yourself better, help you get to know your partner better. You will learn new and interesting ways in which to communicate and love each other, but if you don’t choose to apply this knowledge, you are wasting your time and money. If you however, are open minded, want to save your marriage, are willing to learn, to adapt and to change (not who you are, but how you are), marriage counselling can and will benefit you immensely!
Important questions to ask yourself
How important is your relationship to you?
If you are willing to work for it, anything is possible.
No matter what the reasons are/were for the infidelity, the results are always pretty similar:
Both the person who’s trust was broken as well as the one who broke the trust will have some work to do if the relationship is going to work.
It’s going to be tough, but it is possible to trust again!
I often refer to communication, or the lack thereof, as the root of all evil!
If you can relate…
You you say one thing… but your partner hears something totally different…