Some may head toward divorce while others will achieve
greater marriage satisfactions.
Online dating may indeed lead to
greater marriage satisfaction for a few key reasons:
Not exact matches
Caitlin Flanagan, with her «I'm so put upon because I work and keep house, but
marriage is better for the children» thinking, and Sandra Tsing Loh, with her «Don't bother, you'll only get burned» bitterness, have (not surprisingly) missed the point that unsterilized
marriage is a
great adventure, one that opens your horizons to love beyond self -
satisfaction.
If the need -
satisfaction path to
greater intimacy is to be a useful one to a couple, it is important for them to recognize that some needs can not and should not be satisfied, even in the best
marriage.
They know that
greater satisfaction will come in the context of a committed
marriage relationship.
And as Johnson and Loscocco note, married black couples are at
greater risk of divorce; they have lower marital happiness and
satisfaction than white spouses; they disagree more than white spouses about such things as sex, kids and money; and black women get less benefits from
marriage than white women and even black men do.
Strong, healthy attachment in parent / child relationships has been linked to increased success rates in future
marriage,
greater career
satisfaction, and overall stability and emotional health in adulthood.
More importantly, the intervention was associated with overall
marriage quality: As in other research, more positive automatic reactions to the partner predicted
greater improvements in marital
satisfaction over the course of the study.
For example, married people in the United Kingdom consistently express
greater satisfaction with the amount of consensus they experience in their
marriage, such as the time spent together, how they get along with family and in - laws, and their sexual relationship.
It explores happiness and
satisfaction in the workplace (in the film's best sections, which star Alan Arkin), in
marriage (John Turturro and Amy Irving), morally (Matthew McConaughey), and existentially (Clea DuVall), and though it does so with a
great deal of professionalism and mordant humour, the film never quite transcends its proximate resolutions for universal truths.
As a Licensed
Marriage and Family Therapist, Sara brings a unique blend of business experience to her clinical counseling practice as she helps clients find
greater satisfaction and joy in their lives and relationships.
I help couples build
great marriages defined by mutual
satisfaction, respect, and love, and to enjoy healthy and happy family lives.
In the book «Open
Marriage» by Nena and George O'Neill, the authors found that people in open marriages claimed there were some benefits, including better sex within the marriage, greater self - esteem, and sexual satis
Marriage» by Nena and George O'Neill, the authors found that people in open
marriages claimed there were some benefits, including better sex within the
marriage, greater self - esteem, and sexual satis
marriage,
greater self - esteem, and sexual
satisfaction.
Findings from a recent study in the «Journal of Marital and Family Therapy,» report that
marriage counseling helps seven out of ten couples find
great satisfaction in their
marriage.
In a study from 2014 the «Journal of Marital and Family Therapy» reports that
marriage counseling helps seven out of ten couples find
great satisfaction in their
marriage.
Joint religious attendance among homogamous couples, for example, led to
greater marital
satisfaction, 22 and
greater religiosity was related to higher levels of marital adjustment.23 Regarding gender differences, the more that husbands attended religious services and were generally more religious, the lower the frequency of marital arguments and the higher the marital adjustment scores in first
marriages and remarriages.24, 25 For women in a remarriage, however, there were no differences in levels of marital adjustment regardless of the wife's level of religiosity.
There are few things that can bring such
great satisfaction to life like a fulfilling
marriage.
Similarly,
greater discordance on heavy alcohol use was related to decreased marital
satisfaction over 7 years of
marriage (Homish, Leonard, Kozlowski, & Cornelius, 2009) and marital dissolution in the same sample (Leonard et al., 2014).
Homish and Leonard (2007) examined effects of discordant heavy drinking (drinking to intoxication and / or 6 or more drinks on one occasion) on marital
satisfaction over 3 years of
marriage and found that
greater discordance was associated with decreased marital
satisfaction.