During the course of our engagement, I have been reading about the counseling process, and my FI and I decided that we want to have a married couple "partner" with us, eat dinner, have coffee, talk about marriage issues, get advice from them etc. Our idea is that by getting to know this one couple and them (hopefully) opening up to us to share things that they went through as newlyweds, having children, raising children, and later into the marriage, that we will have someone who can help advise us through the engagement and perhaps into the marriage as well.
We have asked a couple that is in my church who have a strong marriage and 2 children, and they have said yes. We're not envisioning any particular print material beyond what the pastor advises us to do, but we feel like talking (on more than a surface level) with a married couple can help us to start out on a strong footing.
Have any of you done anything like this, or considered doing something like this? Did you find it helpful, worth your time, etc? What kinds of things did you do as activities with your partner couple? Did they come to any of your pre-marital counseling sessions as support?
Lots of questions here... any answers or ideas you have would be great!!
Post edited because it didn't read very well the first time. :-)
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