Communications in Marriage

Asserting that communication is necessary in the marriage relationship, however, carries with it the implication that there are barriers to communication - and that there must be some conscious effort made to overcome those barriers in order for the marriage partners to communicate freely and effectively. One of the major barriers recognized with as much widespread truism as the "communications" imperative is the issue of gender differences. It will be the purpose of this essay to identify some of the aspects of the gender difference issue, then discuss them in terms of communication and, where applicable, the marriage relationship in general.

Most men and women seem unable to entertain the idea that the two sexes' differing perspectives on many issues can be equally valid.

In attempting to understand the role gender differences play in the marriage relationship, we are forced to explore kindred studies of the family. This is relatively virgin territory, for as counselor-social scientist

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ple. . . . Women suffer far more from stress than men, because in their case stress is intangible - there's nothing they can pinpoint specifically. Trying to fill a role that is not properly defined or fit into an outgrown stereotype is an infinitely more damaging type of stress than most men face in the business world. In the examples cited so far, the gender differences described in the traditional standard tend to confirm the male/female stereotypes: men stronger, reacting well to the stress of activity; women weaker, less able to handle the stress of life after being cast out of the familial home. But the question remains: Do males and females learn their gender differences or inherit them? At this point, with scientific research short on long-term studies of the gender differences in familial systems, sociologists and psychologists have had no other recourse but to look at anthropological and biological findings. The theory of doing goes as follows: if traditional male/female behavior is a result of biological factors, then those patterns of behavior will be replicated cross-culturally. They are not. On the basis of several anthropological studies among humans and animals, the consensus of agreement is that: ...ob
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