Keep Living, Loving, & Laughing

Premarital Counseling provides couples with vital relationship-building information to help couples communicate more effectively and the ability to resolve conflict in a healthy manner. The Keep Living, Loving, & Laughing Premarital Sessions have the potential to create healthy relationships or repair a ruptured relationship by helping couples identify behaviors that are damaging to the relationship and replacing them with intimacy-producing behaviors. The Keep Living, Loving, & Laughing Premarital Sessions will enrich your relationship by focusing on the following:

  • Identify your strengths as a couple and build new ones.

  • Understand and appreciate personality differences.

  •  Establish personal, couple, and family goals.

  • Strengthen your communication skills.

  • Uncover stressful areas and resolve conflict.

7 Benefits to Premarital Counseling

All relationships can benefit.

All couples can benefit from premarital counseling, even the ones that seem perfect. No relationship will ever be perfect or conflict-free; however, premarital counseling can help couples work through potential difficulties. They will learn to keep their love alive even through adversities by learning to compromise and work through the issues with their partner. This type of interaction enhances connectedness and ultimately helps create a healthy relationship.

Builds Communication Skills

The couple gets to work with a neutral individual who will help them better understand each other and assist them in acquiring compassion and communication skills that will get them through difficult times.

Opportunity to address issues.

Couples are provided with a safe environment to discuss difficult topics such as finances and childrearing that have the potential to lead to divorce. Addressing these difficult issues in advance is an excellent opportunity to lay a solid foundation and avoid serious conflict in the future.

Helps Couples plan for the future.

The couple can set future personal and family goals and establish steps to meet these goals. Premarital counseling also allows the couple to focus on and plan for relationships and individual life transitions.

Discover new things about themselves.

During the sessions, the counselor can help the couple share relevant information with each other they might have otherwise been reluctant to share. This opening up offers significant growth opportunities for the couple as they learn more about each other.

Access to Counselor Wisdom

The couples get to benefit from a voice of wisdom on relationships and marriage. The couple will discuss real-life issues and have the opportunity to get another perspective on the common struggles of relationships, encouragement of prevention of those struggles, and the hope of repair if they should experience trouble.

Gain tools for a Healthy Sustainable Relationship.

Premarital counseling will help empower the couple with the tools needed to build trust and techniques that can be utilized to support each other. This empowerment will increase the health and longevity of the relationship.