Why Is Pre Marriage Counselling Important?

Are you planning to get married? The wedding dress, decoration, flowers, lighting, and venue you will choose might take centre stage. However, prioritizing pre marriage counselling is essential for building a fulfilling and lasting relationship.

Let’s discuss the potential reasons why pre-marital counselling is an essential investment if you are thinking of getting married.

Choose Compatibility Over Chemistry

Yes, love and chemistry between two souls are wonderful and much needed, but true compatibility goes deeper. Pre-wedding counselling provides a way to think of a safe space to know the following important topics;

• Values And Beliefs: Talking about your core values and beliefs around families, finances, religion, and lifestyle will help a person to identify the thoughts of conflict or compromise. With better insight into life values and beliefs, a person can focus on logical thinking.
• Communication Styles: While communicating, both partners should have the patience to listen and speak to the other. It can cut the chances of disagreement or heated-up situations. The more you communicate easily with each other, the better it becomes to handle disagreements.
• Financial Goals and Planning: Open discussion about financial expectations, budgeting habits, and debt management is important. This type of open discussion will give financial harmony in marriage.
• Upbringing And Philosophies: Knowing each other’s upbringing and philosophy is also important when discussing weddings. Both need to discuss their point of view on raising kids, which includes discipline, education, and values, to know about the parenting approach.
• Family Dynamics: Knowing and understanding each other’s family background is mandatory. Because it’s ultimately a wedding between two families too.

Before saying; “Yes, I Do!” couples need to discuss all the things mentioned above. A stronger foundation is important, and logical reasoning makes a relationship stronger.

Choose Effective Communication Over Happily Ever After

Communication is key to solving every issue, right? In marriage, it’s also a key to maintaining a healthy relationship. Premarital counselling helps couples with necessary communication skills including;

• Active Listening: Practice to be a good listener first, as it leads to smooth communication. Listening and understanding each other’s opinions gain empathy and connection in marriage.
• Share Needs And Wants Without Hesitation: If you want to prevent misunderstanding and resentment; you need to share your needs and wants without hesitation.
• Conflict Resolution In A Healthy Way: Having healthy conflict resolution skills is necessary because you need to deal with your partner as well as with your family at the same time. Use your logical thinking before deciding your side in a conflict and resolve it.

These are the basic skills that you need to learn before marriage. These skills ensure you are capable enough to deal with any situation after the wedding.

Setting Realistic Goals

Keep in mind, that marriage is a journey, not a destination. Marriage counselling and setting real goals help people;

• Setting Actual Expectations: Having discussions on roles, responsibilities, and personal growth as partners as well as in-laws helps increase understanding and prevent disappointment.
• Having Idea Of Shared Goals: Having a healthy discussion of career goals and professional goals helps both to understand family planning and draw a roadmap for the journey together.
• Cope-up Approach: Partners should be aware of the situations that may lead to misunderstandings in a relationship. The better you know each other, the easier it becomes to come to a common cope-up approach.

And all these mark the beginning of a happy ending. Discuss your relationship expectations and goals so that it helps resolve challenges together.

Discussion of Investments and Savings

Your finances are a crucial part in life and never miss discussing about it with your partner in the pre-marital stage. Talk about your finances, savings and financial goals, so that the other partner can help you better and encourage with big savings and investments later on in life.

Some tips can help things flow smoothly in life:

1. Improve communication skills
2. Stronger conflict resolution abilities
3. Greater satisfaction with their relationships
4. Reduced risk of divorce

Participating in counselling with the best psychologist helps to bird-eye your future with your partner. It gives a clear view of the relationship flaws and suggests ways to overcome them.

Pre-marital and parenting counselling connect as partners approach these sessions to correct a relationship and its overall well-being. Counselling can lead to a better understanding of how to maintain healthy relationships as partners and parents later on. Practise and nurture positive values and beliefs in life, and this will help partners have a shared understanding of a happy marriage.

Whether about marriage or parenting counselling, sharing the same goals can help make things smooth. With common expectations and life philosophies, individuals can perform better as parents and partners, leading a happy life.

Conclusion

A strong relationship and perfect marriage start by practising open comm. So sharing your values, beliefs, future goals (personal and professional), family background, likes, dislikes, etc, will contribute towards building and maintaining a happy and healthy relationship.

Dr. Dipti Yadav is a well-known and best psychologist for weddings with 20 years of experience. She is helping couples to build a strong and healthy relationship that they want. If you are thinking of premarital counselling contact her today to schedule a consultation and take a step ahead to having happy and healthy marriage life.

About Author

The author is a psychologist and marriage therapist passionate about helping couples build healthy and fulfilling relationships. With almost 20 years of experience in pre-marital counseling, she guides couples through open communication, shared values, and effective conflict-resolution skills. She believes that a strong bond is key to a happy and healthy marriage, and she is committed to helping couples achieve just that. Call +91 88262 86007 or visit wellbeinghelp.com to schedule an appointment with Dr. Dipti Yadav.