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Where can I go to find a marital counselor who uses the Marriage Builders method? Is there a list anywhere on the website where I can look?
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Where can I go to find a marital counselor who uses the Marriage Builders method? Is there a list anywhere on the website where I can look? Welcome to Marriage Builders. Would you like to share your story? I would call the coaching center here for the best results. Coaching Center Then the next best thing is to follow this. How To Find a Good Marriage Counselor I hope this helps.
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Too much hurt and pain on both sides that my brain hurts just thinking about it all.
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For best results do you mean use the Coaching Center instead of seeking another counselor, or that the Coaching Center can refer me to another counselor that uses the MB method? I've already read the link about finding a counselor. That's why I asked about finding another counselor. We ended our other marital counseling because the therapist didn't use the MB method, and I felt the therapist's method wasn't helping.
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For the best results I would call the coaching center. They have the best success rates in saving marriages.
Most "marriage counselors" do not know how to save marriages.
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Too much hurt and pain on both sides that my brain hurts just thinking about it all.
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Use the coaching center here or the online program. Much of this program goes against traditional counseling methods, it will be very difficult to find a therapist who would use it in its entirety.
We had one 'therapist' advise us that the solution for me not trusting my husband because he'd lied so many times was for my H to leave me because a person should just not have to live with someone who does not trust them! Um, how about being honest? Think that would solve the issue a little more efficiently than breaking up a home with four children?? Lol, it is funny now...
We ended up using the coaching center for six months, HUGE difference, and still married! And happily so!
Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.
(Oscar Wilde)
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I would use the Marriage Builders counselors. Marriage counselors are so destructive to marriages, that I would never trust my marriage to one. Every day we have someone come on this forum reporting some crazy, destructive advice from a counselor. I am sure there are sme good ones out there, but they are a small minority.
"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena.." Theodore Roosevelt Exposure 101
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I've already read the link about finding a counselor. That's why I asked about finding another counselor. We ended our other marital counseling because the therapist didn't use the MB method, and I felt the therapist's method wasn't helping. We went through several of those. We finally got much better results from using the Marriage Builders accountability program and the coaching available from MB. In fact, some of our best results came simply from listening to Dr. Harley's free Marriage Builders radio show. Dr. Harley has a book for counselors on how to counsel couples using his methods. I'm not aware of any counselors using his methods unmodified, although some people here have taken that book to a counselor and asked if they'd be willing to use it.
If you are serious about saving your marriage, you can't get it all on this forum. You've got to listen to the Marriage Builders Radio show, every day. Install the app! Married to my radiant trophy wife, Prisca, 19 years. Father of 8. Attended Marriage Builders weekend in May 2010 If your wife is not on board with MB, some of my posts to other men might help you.
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Last edited by CicadaMB; 05/17/12 11:15 AM. Reason: Please familiarize yourself with Marriage Builders concepts prior to posting
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