Financial Ruin Doesn’t Bring Marriage Down
Not every marriage is the kind that experiences its full real difficulties when the married couple has been married a few years and some major life changes have taken their toll on the relationship. Sometimes a couple who depended on “true love” to guide them through it all are often those same ones that find themselves, almost embarrassingly so, sitting in the office of a marriage therapist wondering exactly how they got there and exactly when it wrong.
Scott and Janet seemed to know on a highly visceral level that they needed to be seen by a highly qualified marriage counselor because their marriage had unraveled far too far for them to move on by themselves. This change was happening during a particularly stressful time in their lives where they had experienced a devastating financial loss that cost them a majority of their savings and retirement funds. After this loss, a communication cycle focusing on words and phrases meant to blame and cause guilt and resentment were being used in their relationship. Arguments were followed quickly by more fininancial loss and they began couples counseling still reeling. It seemed as though the marriage was lost along with their financial future when they finally got to counseling.
The marriage counselor needed to work with this couple on a variety of subjects, including exploring some of the deeper meanings in their relationship, while grieving the loss of a financial state that had been a safety net for some time. Slowly, they began to understand where their own fears and insecurities took part in the collapse and rebuilding of their marriage.
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