Couples Counselor Is A Last Resort
Carla and Bill had been married for 11 years and had 2 young children together. The past few years had found them on the downside of the economic turn and frustration, anger and anxiety had taken its toll on their marriage. After almost a year of constant fighting, the couple decided that it would be best for the family if they separated, but they were in the unfortunate situation of being unable to afford a divorce and would not be able to sell their home at a price that would even cover what they owned on it.
Faced with the unforeseen circumstances of wanting a divorce but not being able to afford to live apart, they called on a couples counselor. Not to save their marriage, but to help them cope with living together without being together.
Carla said:
We fought so much that I began to wonder if our youngest son would ever remember a time when we weren’t fighting. It just wasn’t healthy, not for the children, not for us. We need to separate in order to bring some peace back to the family, but we had no money! We barely had enough money to pay the mortgage, never mind adding another living arrangement to the budget. We couldn’t afford to split up, but we couldn’t emotionally live together any more. We thought that maybe a couples counselor would help us find a way to tolerate each other and mediate our arguments until we could get enough money together to separate.
After the first month of couples counseling, Carla and Bill found that they were doing more than learning to live with each other peacefully; they were learning to love one another again, in spite of all they had gone through. Couples counseling is sometimes used as a resort for couples who would choose divorce but for some reason cannot live apart.
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