Pre-Marriage Counseling

Ideas that Building My Marriage focuses on for those planning to marry and would like pre-marriage counseling:

Christian marriages fail for the same reasons that non Christian marriages fail. Church attendance, professions of faith, and religious activities, while necessary for the Christian marriage, do not in themselves guarantee escape from the common problem areas of marriage.

Christian marriages have about as much stress as non Christian marriages, caused by the same internal, flawed processes and concepts.

Healthy marriages (not to be confused with those that simply “last”) do not simply happen: they are planned and built.

It is better to begin building a marriage conceptually with knowledge, understanding, and commitment, than it is to attempt a reconstruction of that marriage after the wedding ceremony.

The pattern a marriage selects is either by design or default. Only one marriage pattern of all the options in our culture produces a healthy marriage and household.

A major issue for most men is that they have never realized that they married a woman and not another man! Ditto for most women! That’s why everything gets more confusing after the wedding ceremony!

There is a healthy way to disagree and a healthy way to resolve conflict. Usually no one has taken the time to teach us that healthy way.

Men and women do not use language in the same way. Confusion and stress often result from these differences, unless understood.

All of the understanding and insight in the world is not sufficient. Only covenantal thinking maintains a spiritually fit marriage and household.

Building My Marriage
before it begins...

A concise, yet thorough
pre-marriage manual
containing 12 essential
skills and understandings,
and an accompanying 12-session video series
for building a healthy marriage.

This effective book and accompanying video series produced by Coral Ridge Ministries and written by Dr. Ken Wackes is a proven and dynamic method for strengthening existing marriages or preparing young Christians for marriage.

Nowhere else are the components necessary to build a marriage before it begins contained in one, concise study. Here it is, Building My Marriage Before It Begins.

Effective uses of Building My Marriage Before It Begins.

• Effective pre-marriage counseling guide. (Testimonials)
  
• Effective high school and college marriage primer. (Testimonials)
  
• Effective resource for married persons reviewing the processes and dynamics of their own marriage. (Testimonials)
  
• Effective in cross-cultural settings. (Testimonial from East Africa Bible College)