Why Pre-marriage Counseling?
No one gets married so they can spend thousands of dollars getting a divorce. Love is blind, at least until the honeymoon is over. He spends and she saves or he is neat and orderly and she is a clutter bug. On and on it goes until one day they are mad and angry and with each other, filing for divorce. Could this have been prevented? I used to teach a class on “How Not to Marry a Jerk or Jerkette.” I can hear it now, “Wow, I wished I had read that book before I got married.” The basics of the book are how to keep your mind engaged in the process while your heart gets carried away. Pre-marriage counseling is far cheaper than a divorce and honeymoon and helps one make a decision based on logic, not the heart. The bible says in Jeremiah 17:9 “Do not trust the heart for it is deceitful.” It will take one down a wrong way street. Billy Graham says “One of the ironies of human nature (heart) is that it often has a way of rejecting the best and accepting the worst.” When entering a contract of great proportion such as marriage one should go into it with his or her eyes wide open. Divorce has long-reaching issues that can last as long as eighteen years. It is a traumatic event that hurts to the core of both involved. Why not consider spending the extra money on pre-marital counseling. It is beneficial to both parties and it can often enhance an already great relationship and stop problems before they ever happen. Dolors Massot says 90% of the young men in prison in the United States grew up without a father. After the Tottenham Riots in the United Kingdom in 2011, a sociological follow-up survey was performed on the more than 1,000 people who were arrested, and it turned out that 85% of them had grown up without a father. Divorce separates men from their children and can have devastating effects on the mental health and well-being of children. For More information on Christian Counseling check us out on Greenevilealive.com.