Take your Vitamin "C"

You dont have to be unhappy or having problems in order to take premarital counseling. Its kinda like taking your Vitamin C everyday in order to prevent getting sick. Premarital counseling is your Vitamin "C" (C stands for counseling) for learning how to prevent compounding issues in your relationship. The Mister and I found it especially necessary to take it because we wanted to make smart decisions on the front end so we wont have to wait until things get all ugly before learning skills and tools for having a healthy marriage.

I felt especially compelled to take the classes even before engagement. We already knew that we wanted to be married, but we were not officially engaged because I did not have a ring yet, but many of us know that if our pockets could catch up with our hearts many of us would have been engaged long before we acutally were...I digress. I felt that it would be unnatural to accept an engagement before taking advantage of the classes and breaking down some walls that we could not do on our own. Worst case senario would be to say "YES" then take the class and realize this may not be the best for us. So if anyone would ever ask me...I would say take marital classes when you KNOW you desire to be married. Its definitely worth the investment.

The class we took called Radical Love is for married couples, but some will allow you to take it before. Nonetheless find the class that is best for you. It was 12 weeks long. We met every Sunday for 2-3 hours. It was a pretty Radical experience. We broke down walls, learned about God's purpose for marriage, tools for communicating and solving conflict, principals to live by daily and made some pretty amazing friends along the way.

Our class was a family for 12 weeks as we were "naked and unashamed" (transparent) before one another and God. I appreciated the community of friendship, trust, and strength that was built as a result of being in a class with others. You learn so much from other peoples experiences. One quote I like to live by is "You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself" ~Sam Levenson





Healthy heart, mind, soul,
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