Marriage Counseling – Maybe Tomorrow
Sheila and Bob had seriously considered marriage counseling for years. Their marriage had been in a state of disrepair for quite some time but they were “getting by” as Bob put it. They had a teenage daughter who had witnessed some of the worst arguments between the two. And while both explained to her repeatedly that she was not to blame and “things would get better”, the arguing continued.
Their daughter Audrey began having problems when she entered high school. She became a “fighter” herself, getting in after school matches with the older girls as well as a boy in her class. She was suspended twice during her first year and her grades were suffering horribly. It wasn’t until her senior year that Sheila and Bob entered couples counseling.
As Sheila spoke, she broke down in tears:
All this talk about counseling…for years. We kept thinking next month, next year. I don’t know what we were waiting for. Meanwhile, we never drew the connection between our fighting and Audrey’s troubles in school. As a matter of fact, we blamed her some times! Isn’t that awful? It can get so sick sometimes. Now that our marriage is becoming better, I feel on some levels, we wasted some of the best years of Audrey’s life. How is she going to get better from all of this? How is she going to enter into a healthy relationship. It’s sad to think that some outside help could have saved us so much grief. It’s hard not to be filled with regret.
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