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The VSA Model posits that couples who have few enduring vulnerabilities, encounter few stressors, and employ effective adaptive processes are likely to experience high marital quality and stability, while couples who have many enduring vulnerabilities, encounter many stressors, and employ ineffective adaptive processes will experience declining marital quality and/or divorce.
Further, marital satisfaction has been shown to decrease over time as couples are more aroused during conflict. This in turn causes a destructive loop of higher frequencies of flooding as well as an increase in self-isolation and destructive communication patterns.
The idea of a seven-year itch puts a specific time on the generally observed phenomenon that data sets of married people show a rising, then a falling, risk of divorce over time. However, statistical results from these data sets are very sensitive to the statistical methods used, and such patterns may just reflect the method, rather than any ...
Over the following months they drew closer and closer, proceeding through subsequent stages of building a fulfilling love relationship. John learned about the unhappy home life growing up in Michigan that had driven Julie to spend so much time in the forest by herself, and Julie learned about John's desire to understand deeply earth's biggest ...
Acceptance of what marriage promises and what it does not Last but certainly not least, good spouses don’t expect their marriages to be harmonious 24/7/365. “Fights are inevitable.
Over time, the Michelangelo effect causes individuals to develop towards what they consider their "ideal selves". This happens because their partner sees them and acts around them in ways that promote this ideal. The phenomenon is referred to in contemporary marital therapy. Recent popular work in couples therapy and conflict resolution points ...
Health behaviors such as diet, exercise and substance use, may also affect the interplay of marital quality and health. The health behaviors of married couples converge over time, such that couples who have been married many years have similar behavior. [41] One explanation is that spouses influence or control one another's health behaviors. [42]
The quality and nature of the relationship depends on the interactions between individuals, and is derived from the unique context and history that builds between people over time. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] Social and legal institutions such as marriage acknowledge and uphold intimate relationships between people.