Why Church-Based Premarital Counseling Does Not Prevent Divorce

In the Grown Zone we challenge conventional wisdom, including overvalued and ineffective beliefs about how to create and sustain healty relationships, including marriages. This edition of Grown Zone Radio reveals three reasons why church-based premarital counseling, in the absence of ongoing relationship education, does not prevent divorce:

It does not reach those most in need of relationship education, when they need it most. Church-based premarital counseling is no substitute for the education and training that must take place long before the marriage proposal. 

It is biased in favor of the marriage happening, whether the relationship is proven to be healthy or not—and even when there is ample evidence that it is unhealthy. The fact that most premarital counseling takes place at the same time that wedding plans are being made and carried out does not help.

It is usually too little, too late without the solid foundation of a healthy relationship. Five to 10 premarital counseling sessions in the months or weeks before a wedding is no substitute for the ongoing relationship education that should begin before reaching the age of marital consent.

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