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Nearly half of divorced couples today tried couples counseling before calling it quits. In other words, for nearly half of divorced couples today, counseling didn’t work. Those couples were facing lengthy, emotionally and financially draining divorces and weren’t able to make couples therapy work for them, and save themselves the trauma. That’s something to think about if you’re going to attend couples counseling with someone to whom you’re not even married. I’m not saying couples counseling doesn’t work, but I am saying you need to be truly committed to it if it’s going to; couples with far more on the line weren’t able to make it work. Couples counseling is also quite expensive. Your insurance isn’t going to pay for it because it isn’t related to a mental illness or individual condition. These are all things to consider before making your first appointment. Here are questions you should ask yourself before attending couples therapy.

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Am I willing to change?

If you had to change your habits and behavior drastically to make this relationship work, would you? Would it be worth it to you to have to make a conscious effort, throughout the day, every day, for months to behave and speak differently, in order to save this relationship? If this relationship isn’t worth that trouble to you, then couples counseling won’t work because you will almost certainly be asked to change.

 

 

 

 

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