Premarital Counselling
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Premarital Counselling
Considerations
The following topics are suggested for consideration to include in your individual programme of pre-marriage counselling to optimize the success of your married life together:
- Identify and understand the patterns in your relationship
- Develop relationship consciousness
- Identify and understand your family of origin influences and how these may impact on your relationship
- Identify your defense mechanisms and how they lead to a disconnection from your partner
- The role of chemistry
- Learn how being open to vulnerability opens the door to intimacy
- Self-Love - valuing, validating and accepting yourself no matter what
- Learn how to keep passion alive in and out of the bedroom - sexuality and sensuality
- The "business" side of marriage, the division of responsibilities, managing money
- Learn about the major challenges to relationship
- The Spiritual path of relationship
- About equality
- Effective communication skills - the art of listening and maintaining safe space to manage conflict
- The art of negotiation for win-win outcomes
- Developing a marriage "contract" - what are your goals, needs, wants, expectations?
- Have you discussed children?
- Develop awareness of your many different "Selves" - (they tend to show up in relationship unexpectedly otherwise)
- Managing difficult emotions - learn how to defuse when emotions start to escalate
- Learn how to recognize when you need time out to self reflect
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