The Importance Of Relationships In College

College courses offer a wide variety of topics and classes students can choose from with only some being mandatory. One can find almost anything they are interested in to learn more about, but the one class every college student should have to take is a psychology class that works with relationships. Instituting a curriculum that benefits the students in the aspect of relationships could drastically change the divorce rates of couples in the United States. In a human’s life, relationships play a major role, but according to American Psychological Association about 40 to 50 percent of married couples in the United States divorce. The divorce rate in subsequent marriages is even higher. According to Grant L. Martin in his novel “Relationships, …show more content…
As young adults go into relationships they think of intimacy as just physical, but it is much more than that. Real relationship intimacy is physical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual closeness that is mutually satisfying. It’s the place where two souls meet. It means that couples are collectively expressing and experiencing the love, care and affection of one another. There is a feeling of genuine warmth, and closeness and connection between them (“What is a Healthy Marriage”). It is said that a family that prays together stays together. But what does that mean? Praying is done by a vast majority of Americans at least occasionally. But it is not necessarily the fact of God making their relationship better, but it helps couples think of the needs of others, be more loving and forgiving, treat each other with respect, and resolve conflicts (Fincham and Beach, 587). Praying connects a couple on the spiritual level. As young adults jump into relationships without acquiring all intimacies with their partner they tend to not be able to keep a relationship together. This is why 48% of marriages under 18 and 40% in ages 18 and 19 end up a divorce(Clarke-Stewart and Brentano, 36). Marrying young puts a lot of pressure on kids at age of development and still finding what they want. But a couple that grows together throughout young adulthood usually creates a unique bond that is hard to break. In society today finding true love is hard with all the social expectations people put into a relationship and not into their personal wants. People today with the connection we have with people 24/7 on social media gives partners easy access to destroy their relationship. Intimacy is a key factor in a loving relationship and with easy ways of getting out of a relationship finds the qualities very scarce. A professor could teach intimacy by showing it is more than just physical relations. Connecting at a deeper level will bring out the