So another big step in Paul's and my relationship

Ok not that I haven't always known I have great friends but today especially I found out how important my friends are too me. So when I started helping with the ROCK group I got a chance to get to know the pastor and discovered how much fun she is to work with. I have developed a good relationship with her. Well we were meeting about rock group stuff and other stuff and we were talking about what Paul and I need to do if we decide to get married. Well she said that at least we had to do 3 months of premartial counseling and then at the end of it if she thought we weren't ready then she would tell us and would tell us what we needed to do in order to get married and how long we had to wait. Well I talked with Paul and we decided to do the counseling now so that we can learn and grow together as a couple and hopefully learn to communicate better with each other. I am really scared of taking this next step but at the same time if this relationship is going to work it's what we need to do to grow.