5 Ways You Can Strengthen Your Relationship As You Transition: Therapy in Charlotte, NC
Into Marriage:
When it comes to planning a wedding and getting ready to make the shift into married life a lot of different emotions may come up. You are probably feeling excited, overwhelmed, and nervous. Sometimes you may also feel frustrated at times as it takes a lot to plan for and get a wedding together. There are steps that you and your partner can take in order to be more prepared for married life.
With all of the excitement and busy schedule of planning for your wedding it may be difficult for you to find the time to reach out for help. Reaching out for help could be the best thing that you can do for your relationship with your future partner. Getting to process this experience can help you to create a solid foundation as you make this change. Below are some tips on how you can strengthen your relationship as you head into married life.
Communicate with your partner about what you need and want from a marriage together:
Getting engaged and planning for a wedding can be overwhelming but alsovery exciting. It is also easy to get lost in the details of your wedding. Make sure that as you are planning your wedding, you are also planning on having conversations surrounding how your future will look after marriage. How would you like as a couple to handle disagreements or conflicts that come up in marriage? When living together, how would you like to split household duties? These questions can easily get looked over when planning for a wedding, but they are important questions to explore with your partner.Find out how you would like to financially support one another
When you get married, you then also have the option of deciding how you would like to work out finances. Some couples decide that they would like to share finances and create a joint account together. Other couples decide that they would like to have separate accounts. There is no right or wrong way to go about it, but it is important to consider how you would like to split finances.What will it look like when you have family conflicts come up?
When getting married you are transitioning into new family units. You will begin a family with your partner, join your partners family, and your partner is also joining your family all at the same time. All of those transitions can potentially create conflicts. How will you celebrate holidays with family? How as a couple are you going to create healthy boundaries with family in your relationship together? Having conversations about this before marriage will help you as a couple prepare for these circumstances and help your relationship.
Determine what your goals are as a couple going into marriage.
After marriage you may have the desire to expand your family to have children. As a couple you should decide what both you and your partner want in regard to children. Do you want to own a house together or rent an apartment for a few years? It is expected for you and your partner to not agree on everything, but there needs to be compromises for important relationship goals.Get pre-martial counseling and counseling throughout your marriage.
Pre-martial counseling is a great way for you and your partner to process any feelings that you both have coming up about married life. A therapist may also bring up topics that you haven’t considered to discuss with your spouse. Marriage is a big transition and having someone to help process feelings and emotions towards it can be helpful in managing any anxieties. Here at Inward Counseling we have therapists that can help you and your partner with this new life transition. You are not alone in this experience and we can be here to help you with this new chapter in your life.
Other Services offered at Inward Counseling:
Couples therapy is often integrated with trauma treatment due to the natural connection between the two. This is why we encourage you to visit our trauma therapy page. We have a variety of techniques we use to support your healing! We also offer depression therapy, anxiety therapy, and Christian counseling. We primarily offer online therapy. We can also accommodate in-person services at our Charlotte, NC, or Pineville, NC therapy based office. Feel free to explore our blogs for great reads and tips for managing life’s challenges.