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Marriage Counseling Questions, Answered
These are the questions couples actually ask us, on consultations and in email, before they decide to do anything. Each one has a full answer on its own page, written the way we would answer it on a call rather than the way a brochure would.
If you are early in this and not sure where to start, the first three below are where most people begin.
Deciding whether to get help
Is marriage counseling worth it?
What "worth it" actually depends on, what a first session looks like, and the honest answer on counseling versus coaching.
How long does marriage counseling take?
The real session range, why open-ended counseling drifts, and how soon most couples feel something change.
What does marriage counseling cost?
Every program price in one place, including payment options and why there is no insurance.
Which kind of help fits
Are marriage intensives worth it?
What two days is actually being compared to, whether the results stick, and who it does not fit.
What happens in premarital counseling?
What a session is really like, the six areas it covers, and when to start relative to the wedding.
Faith and marriage
Should Christians go to marriage counseling?
What Scripture actually says about counsel, where the hesitation is legitimate, and how to choose well.
How is Christian marriage counseling different?
What is genuinely the same, what changes, and whether it is real counseling or mostly Bible verses.
When it is harder than usual
What if my spouse won't go?
What a no usually means, why asking again backfires, and how to make the first yes smaller.
Can counseling save a marriage after an affair?
What the recovery research shows, the three things that have to be true first, and when coaching is not the right next step.
Something you can try tonight
What is the 5-5-5 rule in marriage?
Five minutes each way and five to solve it. How to run it during an actual argument, and what it cannot fix.
Don't see your question here?
Ask it on a free consultation. Thirty minutes, no cost, nothing signed, and you'll get a straight answer even if that answer is that we're not the right fit for what you're carrying.
Start with one conversation
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Cheering you on,
- Chad & Sarah-Gayle
There's always, always hope.