Couples therapy can be quite expensive, it’s time consuming, and it *requires* both parties to be open to communicating, listening, and TRYING to do the work. Sounds like he doesn’t want to do the work. Ask yourself if you’re really willing to spend hundreds of dollars, weeks / months of your time, and your mental and emotional labor for someone who isn’t even interested in doing the work.

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we’ve only been together for one year and a half and he says that going to counseling means this relationship is broken. i feel hurt because counseling can only help us and he didn’t give any thought to it and is being close-minded.

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some men I know have had previous bad or traumatic experiences with counseling, it might also be that he feels offended that you think he needs it. a lot of men are raised w the idea that counseling is for pussies or really fucked up people, it takes time to get past that

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