Marriage counseling or therapy is a process meant to reconcile disparities between the two partners involved by means of discussions with a therapist. Marriage counseling may prove to be very affective and helpful if taken at an appropriate time.

A few basic questions about marriage counseling maybe:

Who needs marriage counseling?

The answer to this question is that any troubled couple who believe that their marriage is in of a third party to be saved may take up marriage counseling. Constant arguments which are often ugly and loud, individuals seething with rage at each other at the drop of a hat, lack of communication, dishonesty, resentments and blaming your partner for your failures are some signs of a troubled marriage and may require marriage counseling.

When or at what point should one take marriage counseling?

This is a very important question because marriage counseling is a process which may work only if taken at the right time and the right time is the moment immediately after having realized that your marriage is in trouble.

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Sharing your life with someone, getting married and having your very own “Happily Ever After” may be a deceptively pleasing but it is surely specious and happens only in fairytales. Marital problems are common to all marriages and may be both frustrating and vexing at the same time. Some common marital problems and ways to cope up with them are mentioned below:

• Communication Gap

Communication gap or misunderstanding is one of the most plebian marital problems that couples come across. This may be due to either lack of time or your unwillingness to hear out your partner with as much zeal and ardor as you would expect from them when you have something to share. If such is the case, the best way to sort things out is by assigning some “us time” where you and your partner sit down over a drink and share your feelings.

• Loud & Abusive Background

Sometimes, if people have grown up in an abusive and violent environment, it tends to reflect on their relationships later on in life.

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That is exactly what insecurity in relationships may do to a person. You may be a perfectly normal and loving partner except that, for reasons unknown to you and to others, you turn into an obsessive and compulsively insecure person who needs to be reassured of their partner’s loyalty towards them time and again. If you start doubting your partner at the drop of a hat, you my friend are suffering from insecurity in relationships.

The thing about insecurity in relationships is that most people are compulsively insecure. They feel like it is their birth right to keep an eye on their partner. They may follow you wherever you go just to keep a check on you. If your partner is reading your mails, calling you every now and then to know where you are and getting jealous of your friends of the opposite sex, he/she is certainly insecure and may doubt commitment towards them.

Insecurity in relationships may often lead to regular fights and eventually the partners may decide to part ways. However, if your partner is insecure, you need to understand that it may be due to their past relationships which have resulted in them building an impenetrable wall wherein they believe that nobody can be trusted.

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According to a recent survey, one out of every three women in the world has been involved in or is still involved in an abusive relationship. However I beg to differ on this matter because any survey or study carried out only takes into account physical abuse and not mental abuse. Even though a physically abusive relationship may show more prominently in the form of scars or burns and bruises, it is the mentally abusive relationship which I believe leaves a bigger mark on the victim’s general well being. I say so because scars on the body may disappear soon enough, but the ones ceded on the mind take a while to vanish.

Physically abusive relationships i.e. domestic violence is the single biggest scourge for women in the world today. Women are safer in a dark alley or an abandoned street but they are still not safe in their own homes. Domestic violence kills more women in the world than heart attacks, cancer and car accidents combined together.

A mentally abusive relationship is tougher to spot and almost impossible to draw statistics from because in most cases women themselves do not realize that they are being abused.

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