Mini Blog:

Marriage counseling shouldn’t be treated as an emergency room visit but as a routine check-up. Often, we only seek marriage counseling when we are near giving up or are at the point where we have given up. Marriage counseling wasn’t designed to be an “if all else fails” fix.

While my wife and I are not currently in marriage counseling, we are huge proponents of it and believe in the difference that it can make in a relationship.

We all come from damaged backgrounds. We are all imperfect. The lie that we were sold is that counseling is for those of us who need it. The catch to that statement is that, frankly, we all need it. We all need tools and resources to be better husbands and wives. Growing shouldn’t stop when we cross the altar but, unfortunately for most of us, it does.

We often step into the counseling office at odds wrongly against each other—wife vs husband instead of husband and wife vs the issue. With just that small redirection of thinking, we solve the majority of marital issues.

“Without counsel, plans go awry, But in the multitude of counselors they are established.”
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Proverbs 15:22

“Where there is no counsel, the people fall; But in the multitude of counselors there is safety.”
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Proverbs 11:14