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I’ve been using AI to check my posts to improve readability. It also suggests changes or things I’ve missed. I reject most of what it says, but I do find it helpful.
The last couple of weeks, as I talked about moving towards a great marriage, AI has repeatedly told me I was failing to give solutions or clear action steps.
So this week, I want to talk about one good solution to many marriage problems: marriage coaching. And full disclosure, Lori and I do marriage and sex coaching.
Today, let me explain how marriage coaching differs from marriage therapy or counselling. All therapy is done by a licensed professional. The same is true for most counselling, but this is not true for pastoral or biblical counselling.
One difference that comes from this is coaching is usually much less expensive. But there is more to it than that. While therapy is about treating something, coaching is about growth. If your marriage is suffering from ongoing anger, then therapy is needed. If your marriage is suffering because of selfishness, coaching will help.
Therapy focuses on insight and understanding. Coaching may or may not bring about those things, but the goal is change. Understanding why you’re sometimes a jerk to your spouse is nice, but it doesn’t magically bring about change. On the other hand, you can change harmful behaviour without figuring out why you do it.
Therapy and counselling tend to be a longer term than coaching. Coaching may be off and on; when you resolve one issue, you may walk in that for a time before working on a new issue.
Both therapy and coaching can be helpful. Most marriage situations don’t need therapy, and in some situations it’s a bad fit.
~ This is Paul, and getting help to Do Marriage Well is a good plan.
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