Prevention is the best cure!

I am sure you have heard this saying about your health. It is the same with your marriage. Premarital counseling is a GREAT idea to enrich your marriage before it happens. Too many people focus on just the wedding and forget to prepare for marriage. Then they get married and have no clue how to deal with issues that come up. If we spent as much time and money working on the marriage as we do the actual wedding, we would ALL be in exciting, fulfilling and loving relationships!

We at Imagine Hope have designed a prevention plan for engaged couples. It can literally save you thousands of dollars by being proactive and preventative instead of waiting until there is a huge problem and spending months, sometimes years working it out. Here is how it works:

You spend 5 sessions with one of our relationship experts focusing on issues such as:

• Discovering how your partner receives love
  
• Discovering how you receive love and expressing this to your partner
  
• Learn EXCELLENT communication skills
  
• Find out what unhealthy learned habits from your family may creep up in your marriage and how to easily change them
  
• Talk about family planning, finances, roles, living together
  
• Discuss issues involving your spiritual beliefs and any challenges you may have together

Basically we discuss with you and give you a snapshot of what other married couples that enter our office are struggling to resolve. Can you imagine going INTO your marriage with this knowledge? Most couples play tug of war literally for years with these issues and don’t know how to talk about them. They come into our office broken and ready to throw in the towel. So much could have been avoided if they had talked openly with an expert BEFORE they got married. In the engagement period, there isn’t as much baggage and hurt feelings so couples can actually talk about all these issues.

If you are a parent and your child is getting married- what better gift to give them? You are giving them a gift that will last their entire marriage!

Call us today to set up an appointment to meet with one of our relationship experts. We are conveniently located to all parts of Indianapolis including Carmel, Fishers, Noblesville, Westfield, and Zionsville. Call us at 317-569-0046 or visit our website at www.imaginehopecounseling.com You can fill out a comment card and we will contact you within the business day. We can’t wait to help you get your marriage off to a great start!!