Sentences with phrase «egalitarian couples»

Egalitarian couples, Sassler said, work together to achieve a balance that feels fair to them.

Egalitarian couples had sex an average of 6.8 times per month, the study finds, which is 0.5 times more per month than conventional couples and two times more than counterconventional couples.

«We found that egalitarian couples have less frequent sex but report happy marriages and have levels of sexual satisfaction that are comparable to «old - school» husbands and wives,» she says.

Among parents who are married or living with a partner, dual - income couples are the most egalitarian couples, even though they do not divide up their work in a 50 - 50 way.

For egalitarian couples, authority is shared equally between men and women, and for this reason, egalitarians work at making decisions together.

One thing we did know was that the Pips were an egalitarian couple, switching out the duties of sitting on the nest and hunting for bugs, singing instructions and encouragement to one another from the railing on our front porch and the power lines above the house.

Not exact matches

The first case study presents a couple that has taken an egalitarian approach to dividing up the household chores, only to find themselves miserable.

It's been a while since I've written here about Christianity, gender roles, and the whole egalitarian / complementarian divide, but a couple things prompted today's post.

Multiple studies indicate that couples who describe their marriage as «egalitarian» are more likely to classify it as a happy one than those who describe their marriage as «traditional.»

Furthermore, surveys show that couples who describe their marriage as «egalitarian» are more likely to classify it as a happy one than those who describe their marriage as «traditional.»

At the same time many couples will succeed in discovering the gains in more egalitarian and companionable marriages.

We heard from Catholics, Calvinists, Methodists, Mennonites, Pentecostals, Republicans, Democrats, complementarians, egalitarians, men, women, kids, couples, conservatives, progressives, singles, gays and lesbians, skeptics, Anglicans, Presbyterians, Orthodox, Brethren, missionaries, pastors, leaders, artists, students, and moms.

It started a couple of days ago when I popped off on my Facebook page about how much I wished there was a really great marriage conference for people whose marriages are more like our own — theologians call it «egalitarian» meaning that we believe in a marriage of equals, that we are co-leaders and our marriage is more about lifting each other up and following Jesus together as one.

In light of a few things that happened of late — the Supreme Court's ruling on marriage for same - sex couples, the addition of the word cisgender into the Oxford English Dictionary, the rise of the transgender movement, with Germany leading the way for parents to register their baby as something other than just boy or girl, the increase in stay - at home dads and egalitarian marriages, universities recognizing a third gender, the desire by some to be called they versus he or she, the declaration that 2015 is the year of the gender - neutral baby, it's clear we are moving toward a society that is busting up traditional views of gender and what men and women, husbands and wives, fathers and mothers look and act like.

One couple, the Shulmans, created a marital contract after they had kids, when their previously egalitarian partnership fell into old gendered patterns, which despite how far we've come, baby, since then, still occurs today.

Q: Does the desire by most of today's couples for an egalitarian relationship make joint goal planning harder or easier?

Romantic couples who live together tend to be more egalitarian when it comes to chores — sorta.

I've talked about the problems of being a wife before (something Oprah seems to understand), and how instead of having the egalitarian marriage couples say they want, they still end up with a «his» and «hers» marriage (and for black couples, it's even more challenging).

Married parents are also more egalitarian than cohabiting couples.

Household tasks and child care are still not being shared equally, even among couples who we expected would have more egalitarian views of how to share parenting duties,» said Claire Kamp Dush, lead author of the study and associate professor of human sciences at The Ohio State University.

«These are the couples you would expect to have the most egalitarian relationships,» Kamp Dush said.

They cited other research that found that both husbands and wives appraise their marital satisfaction based on what the wives do for the husbands, while younger couples may look at relationships in a more egalitarian way.

Most Americans support egalitarian family structures, yet couples find it difficult to split all responsibilities even - steven.

As Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt called it quits, many are wondering if the latest Hollywood divorcing couple will adapt this egalitarian approach to child custody and visitation over their six kids.

American couples therapists, shaped by the legacy of egalitarian ideals, often find themselves challenged by these contradictions.

In fact, contemporary couples who adhere to this more egalitarian division of labor are the only couples who have experienced an increase in sexual frequency compared to their counterparts of the past, whereas other groups — including those where the woman does the bulk of the housework — have experienced declines in sexual frequency.

Sassler reports, «Contemporary couples who adhere to a more egalitarian division of labor are the only couples who have experienced an increase in sexual frequency compared to their counterparts of the past.

One recent highly publicized article reported that married couples who split domestic chores in an egalitarian manner had sex less often, and reported less satisfaction with their sex lives, than couples who adhered to more to conventional gender behaviors.

After all, according to studies, Millennial couples who split chores in a more egalitarian manner have a bit more fun.

In addition, couples in which men did most or all of the childcare had just as much sex as couples with egalitarian arrangements, and were just as satisfied with the amount of sex they were having.

In future research, Carlson wants to learn more about the mechanisms behind why couples with more egalitarian childcare arrangements reported higher quality relationships and sex lives.

A new study, «The Gendered Division of Housework and Couples» Sexual Relationships: A Reexamination» looks at the sex lives of three types of heterosexual couples: conventional (the woman does 65 percent or more of the housework), egalitarian (the male partner performs 35 - 65 percent of the housework) and counterconventional (the man performs 65 percent or more of the housCouples» Sexual Relationships: A Reexamination» looks at the sex lives of three types of heterosexual couples: conventional (the woman does 65 percent or more of the housework), egalitarian (the male partner performs 35 - 65 percent of the housework) and counterconventional (the man performs 65 percent or more of the houscouples: conventional (the woman does 65 percent or more of the housework), egalitarian (the male partner performs 35 - 65 percent of the housework) and counterconventional (the man performs 65 percent or more of the housework).

If you and your spouse are struggling to build an egalitarian relationship in which you share chores, you need a therapist who recognizes this goal as important and who has helped similar couples.