Discuss the changing expectations and marital patterns, and marital satisfaction issues
Discuss the changing expectations and marital patterns, and marital satisfaction issues
What is the pattern of marital satisfaction?
For many couples, marital satisfaction falls and rises in a U-shaped configuration. It begins to decline after the birth of children but increases when the youngest child leaves home and eventually returns to a level of satisfaction similar at the start of marriage.
Marital expectations are beliefs about marriage, family roles and relationships that govern behaviour of oneself and the others and were acquired through the process of socialization.
