Although the question is seldom consciously asked, it is the guiding consideration which makes some persons more and some less attractive as
potential marital partners.
This literature raises the question of
how marital partners are specifically communicating about financial issues.
This review focuses on the impact and importance of conflict resolution styles used
by marital partners to their physical health outcomes.
The focus of this paper is to examine the associations between socioeconomic status differences and changes within marriage
of marital partners and marital instability.
Marital partners who find it easier or less demanding of self - investment to meet their sexual or emotional needs outside the marriage will not achieve intimacy.
Among young adults, cohabitation may be seen as an acceptable way to «try out» a marriage and the couple's compatibility before a legal commitment is made (Kline et al., 2004), and parents tend to have little influence on the choice of dating and
marital partners as well as the timing of marriage.
They also
found marital partners experienced more anxiety, trepidation, distress, and unhappiness regarding conflict about money compared to other disagreements.
Years later, the Puritans viewed marriage as a very blessed relationship that
gave marital partners an opportunity to love and forgive.
If marital partners are too dependent on each other for a sense of self - worth and even identity, there is a kind of compulsive togetherness which is not genuine intimacy.
These financial disagreements have the potential to
lead marital partners to engage in heated conflict (Dew & Dakin, 2011).
It's required for your prenuptial agreement, and it's also good practice about being up front and straightforward about financial issues with your
new marital partner.
The present study makes predictions comparable to the findings of Wilmarth et al., such that destructive communication about financial issues in particular will be problematic
for marital partners, whereas engaging in constructive communication will be more satisfying for couples.
The IBM was developed for use as a simple self - report measure to rate important components of the relationship
between marital partners, described as the constructs of care and control.
This is the time of the meshing of two divergent personalities and sets of needs which were brought to the marriage, and of acquiring the new roles
of marital partners.
Marital partners who can become aware of their ambivalence — the ways in which they are both projecting their inner conflicts on the screen of the marriage and trying to manipulate each other — can begin to take steps toward mutual need - satisfaction.
However, scant scholarly attention has been devoted to understanding
how marital partners are communicating about a specific conflict topic, such as finances, and the impact these conflict messages would have on marital satisfaction.
Importantly, this latter finding — especially the positive association between age and using online personals ads to
find marital partners — suggests that older adults are not only more involved in the pursuit of romantic partners via the Internet than younger adults, but more serious in their pursuits, as well.
These include the dependable rituals and routines which develop within such a relationship, the essential process of adjusting one's needs to the needs of the other, and the way in which
a marital partner can hold up reality to help the other face it and satisfy his needs within it.
A third measuring device is the extent to which
the marital partners turn in upon themselves (in day - dreaming, self - comforting through overeating, etc.) or look outside the marriage for the satisfactions they should get within it.
There is some poetry and music in nearly everyone's soul;
marital partners can help bring it out of each other through mutual encouragement and sharing.
Marital partners can do much to provide for each other the food which will satisfy these hungers of the heart.
Marital partners can be of help to each other in this process.
Coontz acknowledges that people in the past wanted both friendship and sex from
their marital partner, but in reality it was necessity, economics, politics and the gaining of good in - laws that were the dominant motivators of marriage.
Choice, something Americans expect to exercise in everything from TV programs to
marital partners, is hardly a bad thing in itself.
In fact, it is precisely the ethic of equal regard which gives
a marital partner the right and responsibility to resist abuse.
There are a number of factors which militate against the full use of the dating years to acquire relationship skills and as a time for making a wise choice of
a marital partner with whom one can develop growing intimacy.
This is a slight modification of the 8 - stage schema of E. Duvall, pp. 8 - 9, from the point of view of
the marital partners.
When sexual intimacy is lost it is usually because of unresolved emotional conflicts within and between
the marital partners.
The common characteristic of these various expressions of intimacy is that each has the potentiality for drawing
the marital partners together.
These differences are reflected in the distance - closeness needs and, at times, in the conflicts of two
marital partners.
Normally these are resolved by being transferred to others of that sex and eventually to
a marital partner.
When either parent became more emotionally invested in the child than in
the marital partner, the child immediately regressed.
Cut and pasted from our manuscript: Single adults might rely on attachment figures in more or less the same way that partnered adults do, but their attachment figures might be people other than a romantic or
marital partner (e.g., parents, close friends, siblings).
It is particularly helpful to do with just
your marital partner as a tool for assessing how each of you experiences the other.
For many dueling spouses, the process of separating themselves from
their marital partners and maintaining a parental relationship with their children can be a tricky balancing act.
You know what kind of relationship you want; whether it be a friend, a casual date, or something as deep as
a marital partner, you have a clear picture in your mind of how far you are willing to go.
increasingly so, seeking and securing suitable dating and
marital partners..