Dr. Phil asserts that the couple is unprepared for a successful marriage and must undergo premarital counseling to improve their communication and behaviors.

“You need some premarital counseling. And if you get it, you'll be fine. And if you don't, you'll be divorced.”

Jay Shetty notes that couples therapy often reveals that partners lack the necessary emotional communication skills because they were never formally taught them.

“And when you're inside someone else's therapy exercise, you start to recognize just how we don't have the emotional vocabulary. We don't have the communication skills. And it's not our fault. It's because no one's ever taught us them.”

Premarital education and higher barriers to entry for marriage would be beneficial for society.

“Maybe we should be, you know, people on the right in particular, there's a lot of people talking about how how we should get rid of no fault divorce, how there should be more barriers to exit. And I've always felt that that's got it completely backwards. That's like saying, you know, oh, there's a l”

Couples therapy should be used as a regular practice to ensure relationship longevity and healthy communication rather than just as a last resort.

“like couples therapy is a regular thing you should be doing to preserve the longevity of your relationship to make your relationship last long term and be healthy, happy, have great communication, whatever.”

Abby Howard believes that all couples can benefit from marriage counseling, regardless of how perfect their relationship appears.

“I don't care how perfect your marriage is I think you could benefit from counseling because there's things that will get on your nerves about your partners you don't have to be close to divorce to start counseling”