Marriage

Marriage and pre-marital coaching

Individual and joint sessions on expectations, money, family and how the two of you talk to each other. Raleigh-Durham or online.

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Two hands together against a low sun

Is this you

Before the wedding

  • You are engaged, and neither of you has said out loud what you are each assuming.
  • Money has never been a real conversation, only a series of small ones.
  • Both families have expectations and nobody has agreed which ones you are keeping.
  • You want premarital work that isn't a checklist you both nod through.

Years in

  • You are aligned on logistics and disconnected everywhere else.
  • There is a tension you have both worked around for years.
  • You are two working parents holding it on two fronts at once.
  • You would rather have the hard conversation on a calm day than a bad one.
We run the household like a well-managed company. I miss being married to you.

The problem, in the words people use for it.

What we work on

  • Expectations: what each of you assumed marriage would be, said plainly and compared.
  • Money: how it is decided, who decides it, and what you each want it to buy.
  • Family: parents, in-laws, and the boundaries you have not agreed yet.
  • Communication: how a disagreement actually runs between the two of you.
  • What the next few years are for, as a decision rather than a drift.

What the engagement is

  • A set arc of sessions, some individual and some joint.
  • A fuller assessment before the first session, from both of you.
  • Work between sessions, done separately and brought back.
  • Private-pay. No insurance, no diagnosis, no documentation trail.

This is coaching, not couples therapy. If what is in the room needs treatment rather than structure, we say so and refer it out. See coaching or therapy, which one do you need.

Have it on a calm day.

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