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<blockquote data-quote="nemesis" data-source="post: 2109665" data-attributes="member: 12082">Yeah, be careful with this one.&nbsp; There are so many types of &quot;marriage counselors&quot; and so many varying schools of thought as to what constitutes a &quot;good&quot; marriage (among these so-called counselors) that you can get yourself into a worse condition than you&#039;re already in.A counselor that is purely secular might listen to your wife complain about your snoring and tell her, &quot;Well, you have to do what&#039;s right for you.&nbsp; If you&#039;ll be happier by leaving, then you have to do what will make you happy.&quot;&nbsp; That&#039;s something of an exaggeration but not too far off the mark.The thing is that anybody can call themselves a marriage counselor, or give advice, and there&#039;s very little regulation by law.&nbsp; Ministers, for example, are often called upon for such services, but most of them have had very little, if any, real training in the field.&nbsp; I&#039;ve seen some ministers give some real screwed up advice to people in serious trouble. The phrase caveat emptor&nbsp; applies here.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="nemesis, post: 2109665, member: 12082"] Yeah, be careful with this one. There are so many types of "marriage counselors" and so many varying schools of thought as to what constitutes a "good" marriage (among these so-called counselors) that you can get yourself into a worse condition than you're already in. A counselor that is purely secular might listen to your wife complain about your snoring and tell her, "Well, you have to do what's right for you. If you'll be happier by leaving, then you have to do what will make you happy." That's something of an exaggeration but not too far off the mark. The thing is that anybody can call themselves a marriage counselor, or give advice, and there's very little regulation by law. Ministers, for example, are often called upon for such services, but most of them have had very little, if any, real training in the field. I've seen some ministers give some real screwed up advice to people in serious trouble. The phrase [B][I]caveat emptor[/I][/B] applies here. [/QUOTE]

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