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[quote=Anonymous]I guess I got lucky, but I feel like our DC marriage counselor's worth the serious cash we fork over every week. After the first kid came, we were in a dark, bad place, so we started seeing the therapist. It took about a year of dedicated work, but we got the marriage more or less back on track. We phased it out, had another kid, and hit the skids again, so back to therapy we went. Another year or so of therapy, and we were pretty good again. Since then, we've continued to go, and I'd say our marriage is stronger than it's every been. For a long time, I thought the sessions were b.s. I don't think a few weeks or even a couple months would be useful. If you're struggling enough to go to therapy, the issues are probably pretty deep-seated, and it takes - or at least took us - a long time to really internalize the lessons about communication, trust, intimacy, etc. Now when we go, half the time we don't even talk *about* the relationship; it might be more focused on one person's issues, with the other facilitating and listening, or it might just be a chance to hit the pause button on our frenetic lives and have a conversation about ourselves - with an understanding mediator in case our frayed nerves start to take us off the rails. I've always felt like the therapist was even-handed about validating and critiquing both of our feelings and positions. [/quote]

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