Relationship Advice - Preparing for Marriage

In this episode of The Couples Experts podcast, Stuart welcomes Couples Expert Kelsey Blythe to discuss issues surrounding being prepared for marriage and setting yourselves up for a lifetime together in a happy and successful marriage. Kelsey is new to the Couples Expert staff, and has been a warm and wonderful addition to the team. She is running the premarital program at the Couples Experts and we’re very happy to have her on board. Kelsey herself has recently gotten engaged to be married so she will be speaking on a personal as well as professional level on the topic of premarital counseling. Take a listen!

In this episode you will learn:  

• Why working on and maintaining your relationship is vitally important at  9:50
• How you can be proactive about problems at 13:40
• Premarital counseling helps couples do more than work out details about the marriage, it helps them decide about their commitment at 17:30
• A custom program for couples that contains EFT(Emotionally Focused Therapies) focuses less on  content than the connection between the couples at 19:30
• What a premarital counseling session is like at 22:00
• Why having a counselor as a resource throughout the marriage is helpful  25:57

Premarital counseling can help couples to prepare for their marriage by opening up discussion on topics ranging from finances to family planning. Couples learn how to communicate on a deeper level and are prepared to navigate the bumps in the road that inevitably come during marriage.

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