Marriages in our culture demonstrate a high frequency of divorce, and only a portion of those marriages that do not end in divorce are healthy and rewarding relationships.

With such a high statistical rate of divorces and unhealthy marriages, there is also an increased chance that engaged partners have divorced parents or have never witnessed a healthy marriage.

Couples may have no idea what a healthy marital relationship looks like, and if they don’t learn the skills to develop a healthy marriage of their own, they may repeat unhealthy relationship patterns in their own marriage.