Marital Adjustment

ashley wilson

Instructor: Margaret Stanton

November 15, 2010

Marital Adjustment

One of the most important relationships between a man and women is marriage. It involves emotional and legal commitment that is quite important in any adult life. Moreover, selecting a partner and entering into a marital contract is considered both maturational milestone and personal achievement. In my opinion there is no doubt that the choice of marital partner is one of the most important decisions one makes in his or her lifetime. People marry for many reasons, like; love, happiness, companionship, and the desire to have children, physical attraction, or desire to escape from an unhappy situation. Marriage is a commitment with love and responsibility for peace,

When we get married, we are required to adjust to our new found relationship. It is more on the part of wives who come from different environment and home; they are supposed to adjust themselves in the new house of their husband and in-laws. Also, husband and wife are supposed to make adjustments with each other, in their day to day life in my opinion.

Most couple needs to try to understand their spouse and make adjustments to suit one another in Oder to make the marriage work. Best way out of a difficult situation is to go through it one can learn many constructive things from the quarrel itself. Another important aspect of marriage is sexual adjustment if the couple cannot satisfy each other’s sexual needs then the marriage is bound to be an unhappy one.

There is a list of some marital adjustment that I put together. Such as, religion, social life, mutual friends, in laws, money and sex, values, couple growth, communication, conflict resolution, affection, education , cultural ,roles cooperation, parenthood, mutual trust and companionship as the areas of marital adjustment. Some issues triggering the need for adjustments in marriage are major; being raised in a dual- or single parent family; being an only child...