Need For Couple Therapy In 2022
Updated: Oct. 14, 2022 6 min read
Need For Couple Therapy In 2022
Increasing awareness of how couples can benefit from couples therapy focuses on the fact that counseling is not only required at the time of crisis. But also how it can act as a form of maintenance for your love life by building communication skills and focusing on relationship goals.
Most people grow up thinking about having a fairytale marriage with the wishes of parents and the blessings of relatives. They expect equal participation in finances, love, deciding on important matters, and understanding of both partners.
But guess what?
Everything screws up.
Everything goes for a toss.
Everything does not make any sense one day.
People live with nothing but agony, morning blues, and innumerable stimuli for never-ending and explosive conflicts.
This situation screams for couples therapy sessions, no doubt.
But what if you could prevent it all?
What if you could visit a couples therapist before things turn ugly?
What if you could stop it from endangering both your lives?
In 2022, mentally stable people and many couples visit therapists for the well-being of their minds, self-care of their hearts, and to imbibe maturity and healthiness in everyday affairs.
People with no mental illness visiting a therapy session is usually seen as a sign of a failed career, failed marriage, or failed self-esteem. Couples who visit a couples therapist are too judged for the same reasons. That is not true. Some couples want to live a compromise-free life with mutual love and want to stay together forever in a conflict-free and peaceful environment.
Every day is a struggle for a couple living together under one roof. Some face issues related to the division of household chores, getting groceries from the outside and looking after children. Some couples struggle to take time out of their busy schedules to sit together and talk, for that matter, have a meal together. You never know when these everyday trivial struggles give rise to a full-blown divorce case or an embarrassing outburst nobody wants to witness.
Couples need a couples therapist to prevent all this from happening. A couples therapist can help them release their hidden feelings, address their issues from a third person’s point of view, and help them live a carefree, loveable, and healthy life.
Emma (35) from Austria married her childhood best friend David (38). It had been only a month, and the mother-in-law started harassing her, and she did not know what to do next. Her husband got caught between two women he immensely loved, and taking sides made it all the more difficult to stay under one roof.
Her friend, Sarah, suggested, "Your situation needs help from the outside. You two must visit a couples therapist. It will help you build a secure bond with one another and be able to deal with your mother-in-law."
Ten weeks into couples therapy, now Emma and David live next to David's mother, and they could not have been any happier. The pandemic, too, brought them closer, even though they lived under separate roofs.
If they had been to couples therapy before making things worst, they might have saved a lot of nerves that went away fighting, playing the blame game, and crushing each other's hopes for a better life.
Most doctors recommend going to couples therapy before a couple gets married, during their courtship time. This way, it is easier to draw on a clean slate. If they come later with bigger and deeper issues, it becomes hard for them to fall back together. Dr. Katz, a practicing counselor with 13-long years of experience, says, "People come from different cultures and backgrounds. Their sole goal must be to live with their difference and appreciate them."
