If you are married, then I don’t have to tell you that maintaining a healthy, happy marriage is hard work. It’s not just something that you can ignore and expect to flourish and thrive. Then when you add children into the equation it gets even more difficult. They can tend to distract and take over if you let them…and the primary focus needs to be keeping a healthy, strong bond between the husband and wife. The entire family depends on this foundation.

With the national divorce rate hovering at about 50% it is not hard to see that many marriages are breaking down in the communication department. The National Institute of Marriage has created some interesting and innovative marriage counseling programs and resources that are specifically designed for the couples who are experiencing feelings of hopelessness in their marriages. These programs will teach couples how to move past these stuck feelings and achieve successful marriages that they only dream about.

I know my marriage has been through these periods of hopelessness where my husband and I were not close and were not communicating effectively. The marital issues really spiral out of control when communication breaks down. When we were struggling, we could really have used a program like this that would have supported us and educated us about how to better communicate in our marriage.

Here is a little more information about this valuable marital counseling program.

Press Release:

With the national divorce rate around 50%, there is no doubt that many marriages run into communication problems at some point. There is a communication epidemic. The National Institute of Marriage has created marriage counseling programs and resources utilizing a structure that is the most powerful format they have found for helping couples who feel stuck and hopeless. They have designed several programs to help couples move past the barriers and experience the marriage of their dreams.
NIM’s Intensive Marriage Counseling Programs are unique from weekly marriage counseling in three distinctive ways:

· Intensive Marriage Counseling Format: Committing to an extended amount of concentrated time like the 2 or 4 day Marriage Intensive allows people to get to the root of the problem and stick with it in order to work through it. If you’ve been in traditional marriage counseling before, you may have experienced how you spend the first half catching up from the week before, the second half getting into the real issues, and then the time is gone. The Intensive format is designed so that people have the chance to go deeper without many of the other distractions of daily life and have enough discuss to consider solutions.

· Efficiency: One of the first steps in the process is an extensive assessment with some questionnaires. This allows the therapists to gather background information and can get an idea of the best strategy to proceed before you arrive for your session.

· Marriage Counselors: The counselors at the National Institute of Marriage are specialists in this area. One analogy we like to use is that of the Mayo Clinic: people go to their regular physician but may be sent to a specialist to work with specific areas. The NIM marriage therapists have been trained in this format to maximize its effectiveness. Also, the NIM marriage counseling programs provide the perspectives and insight of two professionals rather than one.
If you are considering divorce, you must try the National Institute of Marriage before giving up. They have developed a continuum of care that meets couples wherever they may be in their relationship. Regardless of the health of their marriage they have a service that can help couples improve their marital satisfaction. Visit their website at http://www.nationalmarriage.com. Read the incredible testimonies from the couples that saved their marriages by attending a Marriage Intensive at the National Institute of Marriage.