Avoiding Divorce
About 50% of first marriages end in divorce, and over 60% of second marriages. Even with these statistics, a good marriage is greatly valued, creating family, good mental and physical health, a history of shared memories, and financial stability.
There are many methods of attempting to avoid a divorce. Marital problems can be addressed by marital counseling, marital therapy, individual therapy, pastoral counseling, help from friends and relatives, reading books on marriage, visiting websites, and going to marriage improvement seminars. All these are useful to help answer the question “how to save my marriage” and to set the stage to permit marriage reconciliation to occur.
Marital Mediation (also known as “Mediation to Stay Married”) is a relatively new method to help people improve their marriage and avoid divorce. It uses mediation techniques in a series of meetings with the marital couple and a family mediator experienced in helping couples. Because it is not marital counseling, it is often a more acceptable way to address problems by one or both of the couple. In addition, it is often effective with couples in cases where other methods have not helped.
If you are considering marital mediation, and would like to speak with a MCFM mediator, search our database for marriage mediators specializing in helping couples Avoid Divorce within the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
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