Happy marriage: Issues and challenges

Pages: 535-540
Tushar Singh (Faculty of Manageme, Manav Rachna International University, Faridabad, Haryana )
Namita Pande (Dean, Faculty of Behavior and Social Sciences, Manav Rachna International University, Faridabad, Haryana )

Marital conflicts have harmful effects on mental, physical, and family well being, and three decades of research have shown the behaviours that differentiate happy and unhappy couples. Review of this work shows that the singular emphasis on issues and challenges in marital results has given an inadequate image of its role in marriage. In recent years, researchers have tried to give a more detailed image of marital conflict by in dept study of the married couples childhood, families and attributes, probing conflict areas in the situations that provoke issues and challenges to handling those situations with maturity of emotional intelligence and life skills of the couples in their given environment. Every marriage comes with its own wonderful benefits offering life satisfaction, physical and mental health and well being, and also with marital issues and challenges. These challenges can bring in stress and strain in the married couples, as the couples work through them it might result either into a break through resulting a stronger marital bond or their marriage can break down. This complete depends on how the married couple handles the challenges marriage offers. Working on the marital issues and challenges in a harmonious and healthy manner can be very difficult as source of stress and problems in a marriage emerge from varied sources. Basis of marital issues begin when the couples argue rather than communicating. Communication is the key to stronger marital bond giving them harmonious happy marriage. Clear, compassionate and effective communication, balances emotions and wards off arguments. Healthy and harmonious communication comes with emotional intelligence and life skills. Love isn’t a state of being, it’s a state of doing, by adding random acts of warmth, spark and passion into the marriage.