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No Need to Hurt Privately
Marriage is a private affair. Yet in many ways it is a public matter. Did the couple not call on friends and family to witness the happy wedding and take part in the celebrations? How is it then that when a couple is in pain, they suffer in seclusion and isolation? Perhaps it is because well-meaning friends and family sometimes do not know how to objectively assist the couple in working out their problems. Perhaps couples only choose to listen to those who would empathise with them rather than with their parents, and that makes it difficult for the listener to be objective.
Confiding our private heartaches in a trained counsellor is not the same as washing dirty linen to a stranger. Maintaining confidentiality and objectivity are the trademark professional standards that a trained counsellor has to maintain. |