| "body"> | | | | people can be great sources for advice and |
| I feel upset every time I hear someone giving counter | | | | counseling. You see, unless someone is in danger, they |
| productive and ridiculous advice about marriage. I don't | | | | will never tell you that perhaps the entire affair was a |
| claim to be an expert on marriage, but I can still tell if | | | | mistake to begin with. |
| the advice I'm hearing is good information or pure | | | | It is quite obvious to me that my friend is in a hopeless |
| nonsense. Marriage advice is available to those who | | | | situation, but her pastor will not tell her this. The |
| need it, but sadly, a lot of it is no good. Even the most | | | | marriage advice he gives will urge her to remain with |
| qualified professional can give tainted marriage advice | | | | her husband, unless her life is threatened. |
| because they may have their own agenda. | | | | What I'm trying to say is that you should take marriage |
| A friend of mine is pretty much at the end of her | | | | advice and counseling from more than one source. |
| marriage. She's very devoted to her religious roots, | | | | Move on if you don't like what you are hearing. If you |
| and has made every effort to save her marriage. The | | | | find someone who tells you that a wife should bow |
| problem is that all the marriage advice and counseling | | | | down and be miserable for the sake of her husband, |
| that she has received from different people for over | | | | then that person is not seeing both sides. |
| four years has not helped her marriage. I find myself | | | | And if a woman counselor seems to be bitter towards |
| getting upset whenever she shares the marriage | | | | men in general, you are going to see this in the advice |
| advice she has received with me. | | | | on marriage she gives. Try to think clearly about what |
| If you belong to a church, you should probably go to | | | | someone is saying to you no matter how miserable |
| your pastor or priest for marriage advice. However, | | | | you may be. |
| you still have to consider the source, even if these | | | | |