Family Therapy For Grown Children
Children can make a marriage difficult. While most marriages find strength and comfort and there is incredible joy in the children, there is no doubt that raising children is a lot of hard work and the stress included in the monumental decision-making involved in parenting can result in a lot of marital strain.
Take Bobby, for example. Bobby was an adult, 31 years old, when financial and personal circumstances forced him to move back into the home he had grown up in. Bobby had a history of addiction dating back to when he was a teenager, but had since overcome those issues and graduated from a trade school and had been working steadily. Bobby was married for 4 years before his wife left him. The personal strain pushed him back towards addiction causing him to be fired from his job, which inevitably led to his moving back in with his family.
This was nothing that we had planned for. Years ago, when Bobby was having problems, it took a lot out of us to help keep him from self destructing. We almost divorced because the strain and the fighting were too much. Now, after all these years, it’s happening again. Bobby is going though an incredibly rough time and we’re going to have to help him through it. We just don’t want to have it destroy us like it almost did last time.
The Johnsons met with a family counselor, with their adult son and then proceeded to support him through individual counseling while they continued with family counseling sessions as well. By knowing the kind of problems they faced before, they were better able to immediately call for help and get the help that they and their son needed, before the crisis grew.
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