LAP Marriage and marriage resolution during young and middle adulthood Elaine Samuels The College of New Rochelle The College of New Resources Developmental Psychology Semester: Summer 1, 2015 Faculty: Judith Idowu
‘Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal”. Louis K. Anspacher. Marriage is design to bring two people together in a loving, secure and holistic relationship. It merges individuals from different background, culture, religious affiliation, and societal status to make a family unit with the procreation of a next generation in foreknowledge. Unfortunately, it’s not like that for countless couples. …show more content…
The developmental issues of life weighs heavily on the hemisphere of life in which marriage plays a pivotal part. The subject is valued to me because close friends and family have gone through this experience and this is the area of career interest that is my focus. This LAP assignment correlates to the course as Eric Erikson stage of development on psychosocial growth regarding intimacy and adulthood taught in the course also Gottman’s Four Horsemen of The Apocalypse. My aim is to investigate the process of development during early adulthood in the context of marriage and commitment also explore the causes of marriage resolution from Erikson’s view point. My approach doing this paper will take on an interview of family and friends to understand the developmental process before marriage and why people ends up being divorce, a literature review format. When I’m through with this paper I’ll extant my outcomes in a LAP and an oral presentation at the final leg of the …show more content…
Eric Erikson theory of psychosocial behavior analyses on the eight stages of development prepare individual integrating into marriage through which we learn from the experiences and situations we faced from birth-1=Trust vs. Mistrust –Hope, 1-3 years=Autonomy vs. Shame- Will , 3-6 years =Initiative vs. Guilt-Purpose,6-11 years= Industry vs. Inferiority= Competence, adolescence = Identity vs. Confusion –Fidelity, Young Adulthood =Intimacy vs. Isolation : Love, Adulthood = Generativity vs. Self-Absorption , Stagnation –Care and Old Age = Ego vs. Despair -Wisdom (Crain, pp 286). Assimilating into the constitution of marriage takes work on both partners to be self-less and giving, giving of time, ones resources, romance, meeting each other’s expectations, leaving all others and cleave to become one (Matthew 19:5), but maintaining their individuality are some of the key factors conforming into wedlock. The balance we create for ourselves highly depends on the transformation we go through also embrace. Erickson suggested, we cannot avert the stages whether we have navigate the earlier ones because of our biological maturation (Crain, pp 299). The truth of the matter when our expectation is not met in a marriage, the marriage goes from sweet to sour cream, the commitment and love is no longer the glue that binds. Although many try to stay the course and work on it or work it out, “they say love is
‘Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal”. Louis K. Anspacher. Marriage is design to bring two people together in a loving, secure and holistic relationship. It merges individuals from different background, culture, religious affiliation, and societal status to make a family unit with the procreation of a next generation in foreknowledge. Unfortunately, it’s not like that for countless couples. …show more content…
The developmental issues of life weighs heavily on the hemisphere of life in which marriage plays a pivotal part. The subject is valued to me because close friends and family have gone through this experience and this is the area of career interest that is my focus. This LAP assignment correlates to the course as Eric Erikson stage of development on psychosocial growth regarding intimacy and adulthood taught in the course also Gottman’s Four Horsemen of The Apocalypse. My aim is to investigate the process of development during early adulthood in the context of marriage and commitment also explore the causes of marriage resolution from Erikson’s view point. My approach doing this paper will take on an interview of family and friends to understand the developmental process before marriage and why people ends up being divorce, a literature review format. When I’m through with this paper I’ll extant my outcomes in a LAP and an oral presentation at the final leg of the …show more content…
Eric Erikson theory of psychosocial behavior analyses on the eight stages of development prepare individual integrating into marriage through which we learn from the experiences and situations we faced from birth-1=Trust vs. Mistrust –Hope, 1-3 years=Autonomy vs. Shame- Will , 3-6 years =Initiative vs. Guilt-Purpose,6-11 years= Industry vs. Inferiority= Competence, adolescence = Identity vs. Confusion –Fidelity, Young Adulthood =Intimacy vs. Isolation : Love, Adulthood = Generativity vs. Self-Absorption , Stagnation –Care and Old Age = Ego vs. Despair -Wisdom (Crain, pp 286). Assimilating into the constitution of marriage takes work on both partners to be self-less and giving, giving of time, ones resources, romance, meeting each other’s expectations, leaving all others and cleave to become one (Matthew 19:5), but maintaining their individuality are some of the key factors conforming into wedlock. The balance we create for ourselves highly depends on the transformation we go through also embrace. Erickson suggested, we cannot avert the stages whether we have navigate the earlier ones because of our biological maturation (Crain, pp 299). The truth of the matter when our expectation is not met in a marriage, the marriage goes from sweet to sour cream, the commitment and love is no longer the glue that binds. Although many try to stay the course and work on it or work it out, “they say love is