Marriage Couples Therapy

When the music begins at a wedding ceremony and the bride is making her way down the aisle, do you look at the bride or the groom? If you answer bride, try watching the groom next time you attend a wedding to see if he cries looking at his soon-to-be wife in a wedding dress for the first time. Generally, we hear that it takes a lot for a man to cry. For me, those tears are a symbol of love and pure happiness. Weddings are beautiful because they capture two lovers vowing to be together eternally. However, it seems like eternity does not mean forever anymore, since it has become common for couples to get a divorce. This is especially the case in Oklahoma where the divorce rate is 13.1% (Huffington Post). Oklahoma should require and provide marriage …show more content…
It is a resource that couples can turn to when they hit a rough patch in their relationship. Therapists offer an outside opinion and aid in irrational decisions or thoughts. Individuals filing for divorce should attend at least twelve weeks of marriage counseling with their spouse for a minimum of two hours a week. Those twelve weeks would be free, provided by state funding, for the individuals who have filed for divorce and their partners even if the sessions exceed two hours per week. If the therapist or troubled couples determine more therapy sessions are needed after twelve weeks, then those sessions would not be paid for by the state. Before a judge can approve the divorce, the certified therapist will have to sign a form for proof of the completed twenty-four hours of required counseling. The therapy session will be a three part process: grievances, inspiration, and …show more content…
Individuals will benefit from marriage counseling because they will learn tips and strategies on ways to improve their marriage, family-life, and personal growth. They can learn how to cope with a divorce if it were to occur and focus on the positive and not the negative aspects of divorce. Divorce not only affects the parents, the kids are impacted by the divorce as well. According to the book “Should I Keep Trying to Work it Out?,” research shows that divorce can affect children physically, socially, emotionally, educationally, morally, and spiritually. Not only can children growing up in a single parent home be more aggressive, emotionally insecure, and isolated from friends and family, but they are 2-3 times more likely to experience a divorce in adulthood compared to children who did not experience a divorce growing up (Should I Keep Trying to Work it Out?). The proposed plan will help decrease divorce so a child’s development will not be affected and they will not have to go through a divorce themselves. Requiring couples to go to marriage counseling decreases the chance of divorce since “the best circumstance for children is a stable home with two parents who are happy” (Should I Keep Trying to Work it Out?). Marriage counseling will also provide tips and strategies on how to properly prepare kids on divorce. Not all children have a negative response to the divorce of their parents and some