So What Is The Value of Pre-Marital Counseling??

  When not officiating non-denominational weddings here in Los Angeles, among other things I teach at UCLA Extension. Last month I finished up my eleven-week course, The Dynamics Of Interpersonal Communication.    All of my communication work – including my pre-marital communication coaching – is based in the belief that we all do what we do and say what we say for a reason.  No one “just is.”   Flowing from that is my conviction that in every relationship, over …

A Celebration of Choice in Los Angeles!

  I recently had a final meeting with a couple who are getting married next month. During a leisurely Starbucks conversation, the groom, Max (names changed, said this to me:   “I had to reach rock bottom in past relationships before I could find Kate I had self-imprisoned myself in a gulag of abuse. I knew I wanted better and so I set out in search of Kate.”   The old cliché that marriage is a “ball and chain” made …