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Marriage counselors ask questions that help couples identify relationship problems and discover positive solutions. Couples will be asked to clarify the issues, prioritize their importance, express their feelings and suggest suitable alternatives to problem behaviors.
Issues
The first step to save a marriage is to identify the issues causing problems in the relationship. Couples frequently argue over money, family, sex and other behaviors. A marriage counselor will address these issues.
Prioritize
A marriage counselor will help couples prioritize their problems and deal with the biggest obstacles to the relationship first.
Feelings
Couples have to express to each other, not just to the counselor, how the problems make them feel. Oftentimes, each person has no idea how the other feels. The marriage counselor will guide them in better communication.
Alternatives
A counselor will not impose a solution on a couple, but rather will have the couple come up with alternatives they can live with. The alternatives may be as simple as spending less money or agreeing to be intimate more often.
Honesty
It is of the utmost importance for the sake of the relationship that the couple remain completely honest with themselves, their spouse and the marriage counselor if the marriage is to be saved. The counselor will ask the couple to be honest.
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