Marriage Counseling A Practical Guide for Pastors and Counselors
Marriage Counseling A Practical Guide for Pastors and Counselors
Biography
Dr. H. Norman Wright is a Gold Medallion winner and author of more than seventy books. He is a licensed marriage, family, and child therapist and former professor at Talbot School of Theology and Biola University where he directed its Graduate Department of Marriage, Family, and Child Counseling. He and his wife, Joyce, have been married more than forty years and live in Long Beach, California. They have a son and a daughter.
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GIVE THE COUPLE A LIST OF GOOD DISCUSSION QUESTIONS FOR COUPLES TO TALK THROUGH BEFORE MARRIAGE.
Here is a list to get you started:
1. Where would you like to live long term?
2. How many kids do you ideally want to have? Pick a number, not a range.
3. Where will you spend the holidays?
4. How often do you think you would like to have sex?
5. What are the boundaries for you sexually?
6. How will you handle sharing household duties?
7. What will you do when you disagree on a major issue such as a job promotion, geographical move, or schooling for a child?
8. What are some key things your future spouse should know about relating to you?
9. What will you do when one of you starts to fall in love with someone else?
10. How open do you want to be about sexual temptation and emotional attachment issues?
11. What percentage of your budget should each of these categories receive: tithe, tax, saving, housing, entertainment, and groceries?
12. How will you work your budget? Envelope system? Excel File? Monthly, weekly, quarterly? Unified finances, divided bank accounts?
13. What is your primary love language: words, touch, time, companionship, or service?
14. What do you think you will usually do as a couple on Friday nights? Sunday mornings? Weekday nights?
15. How will you work to maintain friendship outside of your marriage?
16. Is there a relationship with either family or in-laws that will likely cause difficulties in the future? How do you plan on drawing good boundaries for that relationship?
17. When do you like to go to bed at night? Get up in the morning?
18. What were the unspoken rules of your families growing up? (i.e. No shouting, be careful around Dad/Mom if he/she is angry, we don’t talk about sex, never let people outside the family know we struggle, love is earned, love is gifts, crying is for babies, being smart is more important than anything, hard work is more important than anything, etc.)
19. What role did you play in your family? Hero, Martyr, Mascot/Clown, Peacemaker, Lost Child, Favored Child, etc. How do you think that role will have to change?
20. The most important thing you have to have in this marriage is…
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