Family Counselor Steps In
Sal and Barb had been married for 22 years. They were both calm individuals and kept their own personal dramas to a minimum. They had a lot of interests in common, including hiking, which contributed to a better than average communication line between the two of them. In short, they were well equipped to understand and deal with their relationship issues as they came along and had never sought out marriage counseling. When they had real problems, they talked it out during one of their many hiking excursions.
When their daughter Velda became a teenager, however, the family began to undergo a drama that they simply hadn’t been prepared for.
Sal said:
Velda just became a girl we didn’t know, almost overnight! She was lying to us, sneaking out at night; we found out she was drinking at a party after school! We had always been able to talk about anything and work it out, but no matter what we did it wasn’t working with Velda, and we couldn’t take the chance of something serious happening to her because we were set in our ways. We called a family counselor for help.
The family counselor was able to work with Sal, Barb and Velda to discuss how their family worked, for each of them, and how it was obviously not working for at least one of them. Velda was going through a rebellious and experimental stage, searching for boundaries, while her parents where attempting to discuss those boundaries without actually setting them. Family counseling helped put this family back on the quiet path to happiness.
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