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- Title
Women's and men's consciousness of shortcomings in marital relations, and of the need for change.
- Authors
Dempsey, Ken
- Abstract
This article speculates as to whether women more or less satisfied with their marriage than men. In her book "Love in America," argues that women should accept that men's expression of love (principally through practical help and sexual intercourse) is as valid as women's (through emotional closeness and self-disclosure). If, instead, there is only present a diffuse awareness that things should be different then change is most unlikely to occur. Unfortunately, there has been little research directed at establishing whether women or men are conscious of the need for change to occur in one or more aspects of their marriage. Most studies that have elicited responses from both women and men show that women are more conscious of specific difficulties than men and more likely to blame partners for the breakdown of the marriage. A wide range of specific topics were covered which provided data that facilitated understanding similarities and differences in the experience and interpretation of men and women of their marriage as a totality, and of several specific domains of their marriage.
- Subjects
MARRIED people; MARRIED women; MARRIAGE; MARITAL relations; COUPLES; HUSBANDS
- Publication
Family Matters, 2001, Issue 58, p58
- ISSN
1030-2646
- Publication type
Article