The Home Front: Marriage Counseling & Therapy - Rabbi Yirmiyahu Abramov

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[Music] hello and welcome to the home front counseling and therapy are so common today that they're taken as R by many people to what extent according to a people to what extent according to a Jewish view of things do these have a place in a healthy relationship Rabbi look an ideal is certainly that a couple should be able to manage on their own without outside intervention outside assistance as I have said before um if there is adequate preparation in advance of marriage very often you can do away with the need for counseling and for someone holding their hand throughout their through the course of of the their through the course of of the marriage because it always is a complexity because you here's another voice is another opinion now um I believe that the most effective form of counseling that there should be where there is a need is to help the couple communicate and the goal of a good counselor should be to how fast can I win the away from me by getting them to win the away from me by getting them to talk to each other this how common is that for therapist who's getting 200 BS an hour yeah it's a very serious issue um and even even you know I'm not suggesting that there's no Integrity um and uh we are living in a very complex day and age when people are coming in very complicated with a lot of Hang-Ups with a lot of baggage from the past so therefore uh there there often is a need but I'm

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1. 0:00[Music] hello and welcome to the home front counseling and therapy are so common today that…
2. 2:02there there often is a need but I'm saying again that um a counselor or therapist…
3. 4:40the spouse or how both of them are going to respond to this but um if…
4. 6:46a negative response on her part um and and and you you can create a situation…
5. 9:21not that's not opening up lines of communication they are the lines of communication be something…
6. 11:56idea that positive good therapy and counseling should be constructive geared towards saving a marriage or…
7. 13:59gotten married so uh this was was meant to be and as such with this meant…
8. 16:31of where they just differ vastly um on the contrary coming in with the attitude that…
9. 18:32are connected at this very deep soul level we'll try and overcome these Soul ISS we'll…
10. 21:07creation that man only man has this absolute freedom of choice so um a person going…

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