Many couples are struggling with lack of intimacy, not being able to communicate, the inability to resolve conflicts, and baggage from the past. Some couples believe there is little hope for their marriage. Counseling helps identify and address these issues to bring about healing and stability in the relationship.

          Most couples want to communicate in a meaningful way, but struggle with not knowing how to resolve conflicts. Discussions get so heated that the issues are not resolved and there is a sense of frustration that they can never resolve anything. Counseling can help couples learn to communicate more effectively and enable them to constructively resolve conflicts so they grow closer and their relationship deepens. But couples must be open to God’s solution.   

Ephesians 5:25-33 gives clear instructions about the marriage relationship. Especially in verse 33 where it says, “Nevertheless, let each one of you in particular so love his own wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband.”  Now, why would Paul have to remind couples what they need to do?  The reason is that one of the keys to a successful marriage is the husband learning to love his wife in a godly way and the wife learning to respect her husband.

Evidently, this is not a natural thing. That’s why so many couples are frustrated. Wives don’t feel they are getting the love they need and husbands don’t feel they are getting the respect they need. No wonder there is conflict. Counseling can help couples understand how to provide love and respect in a way that ministers to both spouses and brings peace and harmony back into the relationship.