The Couple Checkup - Relationship Evaluation

Are you hesitating entering into a deeper relationship because you are not sure if it's the right one for you? Then The Couple Check-Up is the solution to your dilemma. It’s a comprehensive relationship inventory that has been developed specifically to look at the key issues which affect couples - personality, money, sex, family background and many more key areas are covered. The 20 page full color report measures different aspects of your relationship. The Couple Checkup helps you talk and think together about your relationship and what steps to be taken to grow both as individuals and as a couple. 

The Couple Check-up is not only meant for those who are entering into a deeper relationship but it’s very useful for those that are planning to get married and want to know how to grow and strengthen their relationship. It also helps married couples to better understand each other and identify the problems that act as a barrier in their relationship. This program is helpful for couples at any stage whether they’re dating, preparing for marriage, already married.

The Couple Checkup pre-marriage and couple-enrichment questionnaires are based on extensive research and are made available through the Marriage 101 Online program. 

Let’s list out some of the goals of couple checkup:

Celebrate your relationship strengths: You should encourage the areas where you and your partner are doing well so that they remain strong.

Identify your differences and decide to resolve them. Don’t ignore the issues on which you both differ. The assessment will help you see how to help each other and how to communicate so your partner can understand.  Relationship growth takes work and compromise.  Issues can be resolved!

Persuade yourself and your partner to talk about your relationship.  If you share your feelings and ideas with your partner you will find out ways to build a stronger relationship.

Is Marriage Counseling and Pre-Marriage Counseling Really Important?

None can honestly disagree if I say that there is no marriage or relationship without problems and obstacles. No one is naturally equipped with the ability to maintain a relationship and resolve issues without some sort of effort. Marriage should never reach the brink of divorce, therefore marriage counseling acts as a great tool to help restore the lost spark in that relationship. Counseling is necessary for both married couples as well as unmarried couples who are planning to get married.

Let us first discuss the benefits of marriage counseling. They are as follows:

• Marriagecounseling helps couples express their needs clearly and openly without resentment or anger
• Counseling helps couples confront the hurts they feel and acts as a platform where the husband and wife can address the issues and talk about them.
• Couples can review their actions to see what may have caused a conflict between the two
• A trained counselor can give transparent and unbiased opinions about the issues faced by the couple. An objective third party can help couples get to the core of the problem.

Now comes pre-marriage counseling. Obviously getting married a big decision in our lives. The thought of divorce rarely enters our mind before marriage.  Then you are married and problems start popping one by one and, if not addressed properly, can result in a quick and often messy divorce. So pre-marriage counseling is very important.

Here are the benefits of pre-marriage counseling:

• Pre-marriage counseling helps identify potential areas of conflict.
• Counseling before marriage helps individuals to understand the real concept of marriage.
• Pre-marriage counseling can help resolve past issues before they become present issues.
• Interests and Activities, Role & Marriage Expectations, Sexual Intimacy, Communication, and Handling Finances are commonly covered in pre-marital counseling.