Premarital counseling is a type of therapy that helps couples prepare for marriage. Premarital counseling can help ensure that you and your partner have a strong, healthy relationship — giving you a better chance for a stable and satisfying marriage. Premarital counseling can also help you identify weaknesses that could become problems during marriage

 

So you have decided to get married. Congratulations.  Marriage is one of the key aspects of one’s life.  The decision to get married, to get married to a particular person at a particular time all are very critical to sustained happiness in married life.It is important also to get into a marital relationship with reasonable expectations and an understanding of what the marital relationship means to the both of you.  Lack of knowledge about what marriage entails, the responsibilities you take on, may result in disillusionment and failure of the marital relationship itself.

 

Pre-marital counseling aims to prepare couples for married life.  This entails the better understanding of yourself, and your partner, expectations and an understanding of the basic requirements for marriage.

 

Highlights

 

• Understand your own and your partner's expectations, values, beliefs

• Enhance your own preparedness for married life

• Set reasonable expectations

• Understand family relationships

• Clarify about the myths, apprehensions and questions regarding intimacy

 

 

Pre-Marital counseling is usually attended by both the partners who are getting married. But it can also be done even if one of them wants to attend the sessions

 

The couple gets an opportunity to assess their own expectations and assumptions regarding marriage and their partner.  To get to know each others’ beliefs and values, set reasonable expectations on one another and be better prepared for the marriage.