Posted by:
onlyme
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Date: May 20, 2011 01:53PM
My wife and I just had our first session with the counselor from LDSFS. My intitial impression: it was ok. I'll know more at the follow-up appointment. This was more of a get to you know you kind of appointment, figuring out our situation. I'll give her a few more sessions to actually help us. Today we left with a few issues we each need to work on but no help at all on how to do that. If that continues we'll have to find someone else.
The positive, she didn't push me towards returning to church and didn't tell me that I just need to pray, fast, pay tithing, etc. We let her know right off the bat that we aren't there to get me back to church but rather to just help us create a new foundation for our marriage.
She did refer several times to my "faulty thinking" that resulted in me leaving the church. And she questioned my wife several times on how her testimony is and if she thinks that I will pull her away with her.
All in all, not too churchy but I'm not sure how much help she'll actually be able to give us. If all she says is that we need to improve our communication skills but doesn't provide anything to help us do that we'll move on.