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[quote=Anonymous]It certainly helped us. I agree that both people need to want to improve things and be open to the possibility that they contribute to problems, though. If either person goes in thinking, secretly, "this marriage is over, I'm just going through the motions" cunceling is obviously not going to help. And if either person goes in thinking "Our problems are 100% the other person's fault" it's going to be hard to make progress too. But if you are both able to go in with open minds, a willingness to be self-critical and a strong desire to fix problems, I think it can make a huge difference.

It did for us! We were in counseling weekly for a few months early in our marriage and it heped get us through some tough times (DH had been laid off and had a lot of anger/depression, coming out at me and the kids; I was resentful and exhausted, and we were snapping a lot). Since then we have occasionally gone back for a few weeks of "refresher" sessions when we feel like we're falling back into old patterns. For us, counseling also helped DH realize that he had some issues of his own to resolve, and he ended up getting some indiividual therapy which he feels was incredibly useful.[/quote]

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