Tag: marital satisfaction
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“His and Hers” Marriage and Couple Satisfaction
The quip that “there are two marriages in every marital union, his and hers” is attributed to Jesse Bernard in her 1972 book, The Future of Marriage[i]. To this quip, she added that marriage is better for men than for women. Over the ensuing decades since the book’s publication, researchers have added to a growing…
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Exploring the Interplay of Religion, Marital Satisfaction, and Divorce
At present, we have more than half-a-century of research on marriage, and many studies focus on solving the divorce problem. With the costliness of divorce to the couple and their children, including financial, physical, and socio-emotional costs, why would anyone undertake the endeavor without real commitment to making it work? Even with commitment to success,…