Getting satisfaction from marriage is a guarantee of the stability of family relations. On the one hand, satisfaction with marriage depends on the efforts of both spouses to achieve harmony in all spheres of family life, and on the other, it is a complex indicator of satisfaction with various aspects of the marriage.
Instructions
Step 1
Each family goes through certain common stages of the life cycle. And at each stage, the spouses face typical problems and challenges. For example, a young family without children solves some problems. The appearance of a baby poses new challenges for spouses. And so on: as children grow up and spouses age, life will force family members to jointly overcome new and new difficulties. Overcoming them will be accompanied by a crisis and anxiety about the future.
Step 2
Successful overcoming of difficulties strengthens the marriage and gives a sense of satisfaction with life and family. Trying to avoid difficulties usually leads to various psychosomatic, sexual and emotional disorders. Often a prerequisite for getting out of a difficult situation is the need to establish new relations between family members, the distribution of new roles and responsibilities, and a new level of relationship.
Step 3
All changes taking place in the family subjectively affect the satisfaction with marriage for each of the spouses. This is due to the fact that different people have different ideas about the family, depending on their personal experience and knowledge. In addition, studies show that for most couples, the degree of satisfaction with marriage gradually decreases in the first 12-18 years. But then, after overcoming its minimum value, it begins to grow sharply.
Step 4
The most common reasons for dissatisfaction with marriage are: too short period of premarital courtship, early (up to 21 years) age of marriage, premarital pregnancy, problems in the marriage of parents. Also, obstacles to satisfaction with marriage are considered: a negative attitude of one of the spouses to the other, different views on a career, on the distribution of power, on spending free time, on children, on the distribution of responsibilities.
Step 5
Young couples have a strong negative impact on the following factors: emotional or financial dependence on parents, different social status of parents, undeveloped skills of building relationships. Satisfaction with marriage is strongly influenced by the degree of job satisfaction, labor and financial stability, and the availability of their own housing.
