{"id":7668,"date":"2016-04-07T04:00:19","date_gmt":"2016-04-07T11:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lauradoyle1.wpengine.com\/?p=7668"},"modified":"2023-12-20T22:35:04","modified_gmt":"2023-12-21T06:35:04","slug":"alternatives-to-marriage-counseling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lauradoyle.org\/blog\/alternatives-to-marriage-counseling\/","title":{"rendered":"Alternatives to Marriage Counseling"},"content":{"rendered":"

By the time I was trying to find marriage counselors, things were pretty bad at our house.<\/p>\n

I wasn\u2019t looking for suggestions on how to improve a good thing; I was looking for ways to hold the marriage together before it self-destructed.<\/p>\n

I remember knowing that we just couldn\u2019t figure it out ourselves really helped me to be brave about deciding to go. It was more desperation than courage, actually.<\/p>\n

Of course, marriage counseling didn\u2019t turn out to be helpful for us, and since a study at UCLA showed that 75% of couples who got traditional behavioral marriage counseling were separated within a year, it probably hasn\u2019t been the answer for you, either.<\/p>\n

So it makes sense to look for an alternative.<\/p>\n

Here are 5 litmus tests to see if the marriage help you\u2019re getting will actually help:<\/p>\n

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