Despite all the publicity and propaganda on social media sites such as Instagram and Facebook depicting happy couples and perfect lives, the fact of the matter is that life is not a bed of roses. All relationships are work, period.
During the course of everyone’s life, their relationships particularly the ones with their spouses is typically going to hit both highs and lows. When it does go into rocky land, it’s best to seek advice from professionals on how to bring it back on track.
Why is this important? Or even needed? Well, if your car stops functioning properly, you get it fixed by taking your car to the relevant professional which is a mechanic don’t you? Show your marriage at least the amount of respect you would your car!
Besides, couple’s therapy has many benefits, some of which have been explained below:
1. Communication Issues
Communication is the basis of any good relationship. Being able to relay your feelings and your opinions in a positive way to your partner makes understanding each other and each other’s personalities a whole lot easier.
Counseling can help couples understand this important fact and enable them to communicate better all day and about trivial issues as well, rather than just the bigger points.
2. A Safe Place to Voice Your Concerns
Counseling is a confidential activity, meaning your counselor is bound by confidentiality and thus this makes the whole practice more secure for those involved. This is particularly important.
We are often scared of voicing our views and opinions for fear of reprimand or social exile. Similarly in a relationship, partners routinely bottle up their feelings for fear of “hurting” each other.
Counselors are trained to ensure that any and all concerns between spouses are aired and active steps taken to resolve them in a wholesome and positive way.
This is particularly helpful when the counselor sees one partner at a time and attempts to better understand the dynamic of the relationship as a whole.
3. Promotes Strengths
Therapy aims to help couples reconcile. It helps them reconnect. It all begins when arguments at home are getting to be too much, hurtful sentences are being voiced, attitudes are becoming dysfunctional. You seek help. There too, you sit and try to wade through the flood of issues.
This all can easily make a couple lose track of what bought them together in the first place, the magic between them, the things that “clicked”.
Counseling aims not only to resolve problematic areas, but also to enable the couple to bring to surface all the memories that have been buried under resentments and arguments.
It guides couples to understand that there’s a lot of good in between all the fights. Basically, through counseling a couple comes to terms with the strengths that exist between them and to nurture them.
4. Modification of Dysfunctional Behavior
This is predominantly important. Often, it’s not what has been said; rather “how” it has been said that causes the problem. Effective counseling attempts to mold and modify the behavior of couples towards each other by helping them to improve interactions and side-stepping actions that can cause physical, psychological, or economic harm.
A common misconception regarding counseling is that it is a rich man’s luxury. This is simply not true. There are multitudes of options available out there and finding the one that’s suitable and comfortable for you is absolutely necessary.
To pile up financial stress due to counseling rather than ease other burdens will negate the entire purpose of going for counseling in the first place.
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