Marriage Counseling and Date Night
May and Jerry had been married for 14 years and had two young children, ages 6 and 4. Their marriage had fallen victim to the changes in lifestyle and habits that so often accompany the arrival of children. Both still loved each other but had gone their own directions in the past years with little emotional bond left between them except for what centered upon the kids.
When their unhappiness had reached the levels of fighting in front of the children, they sought out marriage counseling, understanding that they had let their marriage go fallow too long for them to deny it any longer.
May said:
We had been going to marriage counseling for a few weeks and had been pretty good about doing our homework and trying to talk to each other more about non-kid related subjects. We had so far been able to avoid fighting and communicate at least a bit more effectively. There were a lot of things that we would wait until our counseling appointment before we’d talk about, which actually worked well for us.
On our fourth counseling session, the babysitter was late and we were late getting to the appointment. By the time we got there, our counselor had had to leave for the day. We sat there. Silent. It was funny because we had been waiting for the session to talk about some things that were bothering us, and without the session, we felt bottled up. We finally decided that, since we had a babysitter already for the kids, we should go out for dinner and have an impromptu date night.
It was wonderful. And we talked without fighting and had a great time. We wouldn’t have been able to do that just a few weeks before. Our marriage counselor helped us air out so many resentments that we were able to start talking again, instead of arguing.
Multiple marriage counseling sessions can help a couple open up their lines of communication and begin to find themselves again as a committed couple.
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