Marriage
Marriage is a legal and religious arrangement sought at the onset of adulthood. Majority of the world view marriage as the family relationship that is closely linked to personal happiness, health, and companionship. It is the most enduring evidence of commitment which is celebrated in every culture. Generally marriage is a potent source of self-esteem, which correlates with a person 's happy marriage. The power of marriage can be measured by the decline that occurs in overall happiness when a marriage becomes seriously troubled. Quality of marital life affects a person psychologically especially when deep marital rifts occur. Both sexes goes into marriage wishing for the best, but expectations are dashed. When it comes to marriages, …show more content…
Individuation is a force that promotes personal responsibility and self determination based on values and believes (Skowron, 2000). How does Individuation relate to marriage? According to an article published by Contemporary Family Therapy, a lot since Individuation help an individual to develop a sense of self and be able to assert themselves in a relation. According to Bowen, the degree Individuation achieved by each spouse in a relationship depends on the experience of the person in their original family. Example, children who are raised in homes were parents are very controlling will eventually develop strategies to avoid conflicts with their parents. Subsequently the children will follow the same pattern of using strategies to deal with a controlling spouse to avoid conflicts. There are two aspects of individuation which are intra psychic level and interpersonal domain. Intra psychic level is the ability to differentiate between emotional and intellectual functioning and which will the person use to regulate a current situation. Inter personal domain is the ability of a person to be able to balance and manage individuality and togetherness in their relationships. Couples with greater Individuation have greater marital satisfaction, while couples who are emotionally reactive have more marital discord (Skowron, …show more content…
Individuation is better explained by Dr, Murry in his article “Individuation” According to him, one of the features of individuation describes as
“a person’s conscious and unconscious assumptions and attitudes about the basis and sources of identity and sense of self worth, about the quality and meaning of relationships to other people and to the world at large, about the energy (or the absence of it) poured into personal striving and ambition, about the objects of desire and passions that lead a person into the highways and byways of life, about the focus of life’s meaning.”
According to Jung the original theorist on individualization, life consist of two major changes, the first half and the second half of life. Theses stages have a distinctive developmental task, sequences and crisis that an individual has to go through. There are 3 main stages of individuation, 2 major crises and its goal which takes place from adolescence to middle adulthood. The three stages of individuation
Marriage is a legal and religious arrangement sought at the onset of adulthood. Majority of the world view marriage as the family relationship that is closely linked to personal happiness, health, and companionship. It is the most enduring evidence of commitment which is celebrated in every culture. Generally marriage is a potent source of self-esteem, which correlates with a person 's happy marriage. The power of marriage can be measured by the decline that occurs in overall happiness when a marriage becomes seriously troubled. Quality of marital life affects a person psychologically especially when deep marital rifts occur. Both sexes goes into marriage wishing for the best, but expectations are dashed. When it comes to marriages, …show more content…
Individuation is a force that promotes personal responsibility and self determination based on values and believes (Skowron, 2000). How does Individuation relate to marriage? According to an article published by Contemporary Family Therapy, a lot since Individuation help an individual to develop a sense of self and be able to assert themselves in a relation. According to Bowen, the degree Individuation achieved by each spouse in a relationship depends on the experience of the person in their original family. Example, children who are raised in homes were parents are very controlling will eventually develop strategies to avoid conflicts with their parents. Subsequently the children will follow the same pattern of using strategies to deal with a controlling spouse to avoid conflicts. There are two aspects of individuation which are intra psychic level and interpersonal domain. Intra psychic level is the ability to differentiate between emotional and intellectual functioning and which will the person use to regulate a current situation. Inter personal domain is the ability of a person to be able to balance and manage individuality and togetherness in their relationships. Couples with greater Individuation have greater marital satisfaction, while couples who are emotionally reactive have more marital discord (Skowron, …show more content…
Individuation is better explained by Dr, Murry in his article “Individuation” According to him, one of the features of individuation describes as
“a person’s conscious and unconscious assumptions and attitudes about the basis and sources of identity and sense of self worth, about the quality and meaning of relationships to other people and to the world at large, about the energy (or the absence of it) poured into personal striving and ambition, about the objects of desire and passions that lead a person into the highways and byways of life, about the focus of life’s meaning.”
According to Jung the original theorist on individualization, life consist of two major changes, the first half and the second half of life. Theses stages have a distinctive developmental task, sequences and crisis that an individual has to go through. There are 3 main stages of individuation, 2 major crises and its goal which takes place from adolescence to middle adulthood. The three stages of individuation