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Mate Selection and Marital Success . By: Amber , Dominika , Meghan and Brendan HHS4UI. What is Mate Selection and Marital Success ?.
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Mate Selection and Marital Success By: Amber , Dominika , Meghan and Brendan HHS4UI
What is Mate Selection and Marital Success ? • Greater marital success is a result of a dating experience that enables the partners to get to know each other (free choice marriage) while arranged marriages are not successful because you are forced to meet their partner. • Intimacy within the relationship is very important in marriage , while many people believe that they should test their sexual relations with one another before marriage .
Murstein’s Market Experience Perspective • Murstein suggests that mate selection is similar to buying a car as you should test drive different partners before settling down and committing to one. • Murstein suggests that marrying your first love is not a great idea, because you may not yet have a good idea of what you want in a long-term partner. • Whyte argues against Murstein’s market experience perspective saying, that “you cannot ‘test drive’ various partners at the same time”. • Whyte suggests that arranged marriage practices are more likely to allow young people to meet and consider a number of potential partners at the same time before settling on one.
Does Cohabitation work? • Cohabitation is viewed as a trial or a test to see how a couple can be together in a real life setting rather than just on dates. • Woman who cohabitate with a partner are more likely to divorce the partner that they cohabited with rather than men. • Many couples within this field do not believe this relationship as permanent because they do not commit to the relationship by putting all the resources together.
Love leading to success • Love is a factor of marital success but dating and cohabitation are not. • If you have a higher sexual expression then it will develop better intimacy , commitment or devotion within a relationship but it can also lead to preceding the development of relationships if you’re permissive. • Couples who remember being intimate and in love have the happiest marriages not relating to their dating experience.
Negotiating Satisfying Relationships • Forming a couple relationship is a major life transition. • Marriage is considered the happiest and easiest transition in life due to being organized and supported by friends and family. • On the other hand , you are committing to a life long partnership . • Individuals have to resolve the problem of being together in a relationship compared to being alone , to develop the influencing strength of love. • Couples and cohabitating couples must portray certain roles for the relationship to work and to show commitment and stability.
Discussion Questions ……… • 1.Is the experience of dating a good way for partners to get to know each other before marriage and making a commitment? • 2.Is intimacy and being truly in love a factor of being happy within marriage? • 3.Do you think “test driving” someone before being in a committed relationship is a good idea?
(Example of a Successful Marriage) • The End • By: Amber , Dominika , Meghan and Brendan