meta_pixel
Tapesearch Logo
Log in
The Girl Defined Show

Why Premarital Counseling Should be a Must for Engaged Couples

The Girl Defined Show

Bethany Beal and Kristen Clark

Religion & Spirituality, Christian Woman, Christian Girl, Girldefined, Womanhood, Christian Advice, Christian Teen, Society & Culture, Christian Dating, Christianity, Girl Defined

4.22.2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2022

⏱️ 44 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Send a text Ep. 076 - Sadly, divorce seems to be the go-to option for many couples in our modern day. That's why we are passionate about equipping couples with the wisdom and tools needed to make it the distance. What if we told you that pre-marital counseling has the ability reduce your chances of divorce by about thirty percent. It's true! Simply by working through issues and preparing before marriage can set you up for success. Today, we have therapist team Adam and Karissa King with us ...

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0

Today on The Girl Define Show, we are talking about how pre-marital counseling can either

0:03.9

break or make your future near it.

0:07.4

This may seem crazy to some of y'all, and we didn't actually plan to do this, but when

0:11.6

Dave and I were dating, so we went through pre-engagement counseling, which is something

0:15.4

I recommend for every couple to go through.

0:18.2

Why not get counseling before you say, yes, I would have spent the rest of my life with

0:21.2

you and plan your wedding?

0:22.8

Why not get really good counseling before?

0:24.8

Anyways, that's a whole nother topic for different day, different story, but we went

0:27.6

through really intense pre-engagement counseling, which is basically just pre-marital counseling

0:31.9

before you get engaged, and then we went through a really intensive like eight to ten

0:37.4

week pre-marital course at our church, and then after that, when we asked our pastor

0:41.7

to marry us, he also required us to go through another additional set of counseling.

0:46.3

So by the time we got married, we had gone through three different sets of pre-marital

0:50.3

counseling.

0:51.3

And now I am not recommending that everyone needs to go through three sets, although it

0:54.2

was very helpful, and I think really prepared us for marriage, but I am recommending that

0:58.6

you go through at least one pre-engagement counseling would be my number one recommendation,

1:02.7

but I'm going to unpack today with Adam and Karissa King from Dairy Young Married Couple.

1:07.1

Why it is so crucial for every couple to pursue serious, intentional, biblically based,

1:13.6

good pre-marital counseling before you get married, whether it's pre-engagement or before

1:19.0

you just say do on, you know, before you walk down the aisle, get pre-marital counseling.

...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Bethany Beal and Kristen Clark, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Bethany Beal and Kristen Clark and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.

Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.