The time leading up to your wedding is special and exciting, filled with hopes, dreams, and plans, but it’s crucial to focus on the quality of your relationship and preparing for marriage, not just the wedding. Premarital counseling can help you enter marriage prepared and equipped to grow closer throughout your life together. Research shows that couples who go through counseling together before marriage have a 30% higher success rate.

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How can premarital counseling help you prepare for marriage?

By meeting as a couple with a Christian counselor in Pasadena, you can:

  • Learn skills to communicate more effectively and resolve conflict.
  • Explore each partner’s strengths and weaknesses, discuss your strengths and weaknesses as a couple, and find opportunities for growth and celebration.
  • Talk through potential pitfalls, any current issues or problems in your relationship, and any problems you foresee in the future.
    Set goals together as a couple.
  • Talk through each of your underlying expectations for marriage.

By setting aside time to prepare for marriage, you’ll be laying a strong foundation, built on Christ and His Word, and your bond as a couple.

Here are some specific topics many couples discuss in their counseling sessions:

  • Faith, spirituality, and your views on church and theology.
  • Sexual issues, including your views on infidelity, pornography, expectations for sex in marriage, etc.
  • Decision-making styles and preferences.
  • How to handle family and in-law issues.
  • Desires for children and future parenting styles.
  • Career goals and trajectories.
  • Any other personal difficulties or differences that may affect your relationship.

At Christian Counseling Pasadena, premarital sessions are tailored to your goals and comfort levels as individuals and as a couple. Premarital counseling offers a safe space to evaluate your relationship, strengthen some of the weaker areas, and prepare you to make a lifelong commitment to one another before the Lord.

Get connected with a Christian Counselor
Please contact our reception team at
(424) 361-6199

Schedule an Appointment