Family Counseling and Marriage Counseling
Family counseling is one of the pathways that families turn to when they are in trouble. There are many reasons for a family to turn to therapy, including mental or physical health issues in one family member that are affecting the entire family as a whole, but on occasion, the reasons for seeking family counseling stem from a lack of seeking out marriage counseling before the situation dissolved into one that affect the children, too.
When Jack and Kate were having a lot of marital issues, the arguments began to grow increasingly loud enough for their young children to hear.
Jack and I would start off arguing quietly, so that the kids wouldn’t hear, but then we would just get louder. And meaner. And I knew the kids would be able to hear us. Even though we didn’t want the kids to know we were arguing, we just couldn’t stop in the heat of a fight.
The situation came to a stop when their young child confronted them.
Our daughter told me and Kate, “If you need to fight so much, maybe a divorce is a good idea. It will give you both some time-outs.” She didn’t understand that a divorce wasn’t a time-out, but the fact that she knew the word, and she knew felt that we would be better off separate for a while was scary. What was heartbreaking, though, was that she had heard us saying some very cruel things.
When your marital problems spill over into your children’s lives, it is a good time to consider marriage counseling and family counseling to help everyone affected.
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