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Relationships & Family > Friendship Issues & Advice How to suggest marital counseling to a friend: 4 of 4

For the most part, our society does not consider professional "counseling" of any kind to be a worthy process. (I believe it is becoming more acceptable, but I do not think that the majority of people hold it in a very high regard-at least not yet.) Counseling seems to be perceived as something that a person seeks to fix themselves, as if there is something wrong with him/her. And, most people do not like to announce to others that there is something wrong with them. Thus, suggesting that a friend seek marriage counseling can be tricky; he/she might think that you are implying that there i...
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