Relationship Check-Up blog.

Please call Julia, MS, MFTI at 561-540-9039 or email
info@earlyfamilyyears.org to sign up for relationship classes, premarital counseling, couples enrichment or marriage & family therapy. 

Singles
If you need advice on how to set your relationship priorities before you meet that special someone, call or email to set up an appointment. We will explore your short & long term dating goals to help you invest your your time, emotional energy and money on a worthy relationship.

Dating Couples
Are you excited about the person you are dating and are wondering if you should take it to the next level and consider the 'M' word? Marriage? At your consulting session, we will help you come up with the best answer on whether to enter into an engagement with your significant other or break up due to red flag relationship danger signs.
 
If you are serious about the person, we will give you the option to take an online couples assessment on your compatibility, areas of current strength and areas of future growth.

Engaged Couples
Call or email and sign up for the premarital counseling class. It will increase your marital satisfaction by 30% in your first year of marriage! It will also lower your chances of a divorce by 31% according to the March 2006 Journal of Family Psychology. Think of it as marriage insurance - learning what to protect in your marriage relationship and how to cope when tough times visit you. 

The classes help couples understand why they view issues differently and how they relate on several categories: communication, stress management, committment & fidelity, conflict resolution, partner habits, financial management, fun & leisure, sexual expectations, family, friends, relationship roles, spiritual issues, cohabitation issues, cultural differences, personality profiles and parenting expectations among others.

Married Couples
Take a little time out of your busy schedule and enjoy couples enrichment sessions. If you happen to have little children, these sessions are all the more vital as they help you recharge your relationship in the early family years.

Research shows couples with young children have the toughest time in the early years due to balancing marriage, family, work and other obligations. In these sessions, we will walk you through creating a family plan that elevates your relationship and helps you be a better you, a better spouse, parent, worker and any other role you play. We will explore how to create a support group and how to prioritize yourself and your marriage. After taking a couples online assessment, we will customize your sessions to fit your marriage relationship needs. Materials used include the best selling book Babyproofing Your Marriage and a separate time-starved marriage class.