Marriage views
In a study of newlyweds Mansfield and Collard found, though couples accepted marriage should be a partnership of equals, they also concurred, for circumstantial reasons their marriage could not be entirely equal.
The researchers found the wife’s agenda covered a desire for a ‘common life’; the sharing of interests and spending time together, especially talking. His desire is more for a ‘life in common’; for the sharing of similar goals, yet the retention of some degree of separation.
The biggest difficulty for married couples is accepting the gulf between the modern notion of marriage as an experience of ‘one-ness’, and the reality of marriage as a relationship requiring constant negotiations between two different people.
Just Cohabiting- Duncan Dormoor
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