Will our marriage counselor tell us if we should divorce?
Often during marriage counseling, the professional may even say to someone or to a couple, "you need to break this up because its too painful, because you're not resolving problems, because you truly don't like each other" and sometimes people will delude themselves because they don't want to divorce because of all the external factors, not the internal factors and its really important that the therapist gives a objective, honest view of the marriage to the parties. And I've often said to people and will continue to say, "I don't think this marriage has a chance of surviving given where the two of you are and how you both feel. Feelings will have to change tremendously, expectations will have to change tremendously, behaviors will have to change to make this a minimally adequate marriage".