Given the centrality of financial issues in marriage, knowing the relatively more effective approaches to communicating about finances can ultimately
enhance marital happiness and stability.
Over 100 separate evaluations show that marriage skill education programs, of the sort that would be used in the healthy marriage initiative, are effective in reducing strife, improving communications skills, increasing couple stability and
enhancing marital happiness.
Not exact matches
For example, the wife's communion - oriented practices may
enhance emotional intimacy and caregiving and thus promote overall
marital happiness for their husbands (Bradbury & Fincham, 1988; Kiecolt - Glaser & Newton, 2001; Thompson, 1993).