In a marriage that has been through a long path that has many more years to go, aspects of the marriage tend to fall short. Intimacy plays a strong role in a marriage, in earlier years of a marriage a couple is infatuated with one other and is strongly connected physically, emotionally and spiritually. As time passes and children are brought into the picture it is difficult for a couple to still be intimately engaged while there are many distractions that need to be attended to, there is a slight disconnection between both partners. Both partners touched on the topic of physical intimacy, they both agreed upon that throughout the years’ time was only so little between alone time and raising three children. Continuing, they shared spending
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The couple both then sought out to have quiet alone time regardless of how tired they may be but they’re rather sacrifice their own selfish needs to please their partners desires to have a strong physical intimacy connection. In the journal article Attitudes on marriage and new relationships: Cross-national evidence on the deinstitutionalization of marriage by authors Judith Treas, Jonathan Lui, & Zoya Gubernkaya stated “Demanding intensive communication and emotional intimacy, marriage must meet expressive needs, not just functional requirements to maintain the family” (Treas, Lui, & Gubernkaya, Year). As an experienced and deep-rooted marriage emotional intimacy and intensive connectivity are strong factors that can lead to a long-lasting and healthy marriage. For a couple that has been married for seventeen years one can only imagine how a couple can keep strong communication skills and emotional …show more content…
Throughout their lives they’re from a strong family based that are servants of the lord and follow after God’s law, this made the marriage fairly easy due to that when hardship beings in the marriage they tend to seek God not only individually, as a couple but strong family dynamics. It is beautiful to witness a family that is strongly dedicated in putting God first over their worldly needs. As a marriage that had God in the center should not put themselves first, when God is truly in the center of a marriage spiritually the connection between husband and wife will essentially become stronger throughout the
The couple both then sought out to have quiet alone time regardless of how tired they may be but they’re rather sacrifice their own selfish needs to please their partners desires to have a strong physical intimacy connection. In the journal article Attitudes on marriage and new relationships: Cross-national evidence on the deinstitutionalization of marriage by authors Judith Treas, Jonathan Lui, & Zoya Gubernkaya stated “Demanding intensive communication and emotional intimacy, marriage must meet expressive needs, not just functional requirements to maintain the family” (Treas, Lui, & Gubernkaya, Year). As an experienced and deep-rooted marriage emotional intimacy and intensive connectivity are strong factors that can lead to a long-lasting and healthy marriage. For a couple that has been married for seventeen years one can only imagine how a couple can keep strong communication skills and emotional …show more content…
Throughout their lives they’re from a strong family based that are servants of the lord and follow after God’s law, this made the marriage fairly easy due to that when hardship beings in the marriage they tend to seek God not only individually, as a couple but strong family dynamics. It is beautiful to witness a family that is strongly dedicated in putting God first over their worldly needs. As a marriage that had God in the center should not put themselves first, when God is truly in the center of a marriage spiritually the connection between husband and wife will essentially become stronger throughout the