Couples Counseling and a New Beginning
When Wendall and Kathy started marriage counseling, both were concerned. And for a good reason. They had been married once before and went through an awful divorce. Ten years later, they rekindled their feelings and after 2 years of getting to know one another again, they decided to give it a go. But this time, they wanted to stay together for keeps.
Says Wendall:
Everybody thought we were crazy. And I wasn’t so sure myself if they were wrong! But we did take our time. Two years. We talked about our ugly divorce, we cried about it, laughed about and tried to understand. We did the work! But we both thought, you know…let’s play it safe the second time around. Let’s get into some couples counseling and see whether we are really ready to go. The great part was that the counselor gave us just the reassurance we needed. We only saw her a handful of times before she said, “You know what? I think you two are ready to get married. I think you have officially made the past, the past.” And that’s all we needed to hear to move forward.
Life isn’t cut and dry most of time, as we know. Sometimes you give up love only for it to magically appear at another more opportune time. Wendall and Kathy were more concerned than most about getting married again. But that precaution paid off. With the work they did on their own in addition to the work with a skilled marriage counselor, they felt ready to enter a new phase.
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