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title: "Pre-Marriage Sessions"
date: 2017-03-15
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# Pre-Marriage Sessions

# Tools for Starting a Marriage That Lasts a Lifetime!

These surprisingly simple secrets of a successful marriage are based on three decades of research by leading relationship expert Dr. John Gottman.









![](https://bestmarriages.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Engagement-1024x1024.png)## Pre-Marital Counselling at Best Marriages

#### **What you will learn:**

- Learn the art of compromise and how to honour your partners dreams.
- In-depth relationship assessment based on Gottman’s bestselling book “The Seven Principles For Making Marriage Work.”
- Interpretation of your unique Relationship Personality Assessment to help you learn to love your differences.
- Insight in to key areas you will need to focus on to make your marriage last a lifetime.
- Learn how to process any argument successfully and get closer at the same time.
- Understand the importance of taking breaks and how to calm yourself down when emotionally overwhelmed.
- Develop skills to stop the four killers of marital bliss…Criticism, Defensiveness, Contempt and Stonewalling.
- Become skilled at techniques to maintain the fun, with rituals of connection.
- Discover the three simple secrets to increasing romance, intimacy, and passion in the relationship.
- Assessments conducted with a Certified Gottman Therapist
- You will receive handouts, homework and practical advice you can use today to avoid the pitfalls so many couples make in the first years of marriage!











#### Great gift idea for that special couple you love!

![](https://bestmarriages.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Pre-Marital-Counselling-300x169.png)







### Not in the Langley Area?

We offer intensive multi-day marathon counselling or couples workshops in multiple cities across British Columbia and Alberta.

[Learn more about our Intensive Multi-day Counselling](https://bestmarriages.ca/contact-us/)





### Does Your Partner Drive You Crazy And You Don’t Know Why?

Learn more about your personality styles, and how they affect your relationship.

[Take the Relationship Personality Quiz](https://bestmarriages.ca/blogs-resources/relationship-counselling-quiz/)