How many of your went through pre-marriage counselling before saying "I do"? This is a fairly common, if not required, practice through many churches, but is also available through other venues and/or books?

If so, do you feel that you gained a good deal of benefit from the experience? Did you go through it and think twice about some things? And if you didn't do it, looking back, do you think that it would have helped you in your marriage?

I didn't go through it but at time I wish we could go to a counselor now for the past stuff my husband and I have been through.

We had a form of it, and it didn't really make any difference. Everything we talked about there we had already discussed on our own.

Yes we did. My father in law required it to marry us #1 and we also got a $40 discount on our marriage license. We really enjoyed the DVD series we did with his Dad... I reccomend it.

not as of yet, but we are planning to. it's an important part of our faith and something we want to do for each other.

If I ever get married I definitely would do something like that.

There might be things you need to talk about that you'd never thing to discuss on your own, may as well lay it all out there before its too late. :lol
Also, I dont think any relationship is perfect and counselling, imo, can be good for people in the strongest relationships

Tony and I lived together for six years and had three kids before we got married, so no, we didn't go through any counselling...anything we may have found out there we already had learned through trial and error. But if we hadn't done things backwards we might have done the counselling thing.

no but I would have liked to do it.

No, we didn't but had we had enough time to plan a big wedding in a church like we originally wanted we would have.

One of my husbands really good friends is a minister and he married us and had us meet with him for about two hours to go over things and I really liked it. When I was younger I recall my grandfather (who was a Baptist minister) having lots of counseling sessions with people he married and a lot of the time they would turn up all sorts of issues that needed to be addressed before the people got married and a few times it tore them apart since it was like an ocean divided between the two of them.