How healthy is my marriage? How do I know this?
While it is impossible to give a marriage an alpha-numeric grade for overall health, there are some approaches available for those seeking outside insight into their marital health. In addition to using the time-tested counseling approaching, couples can also find some helpful diagnostic inventories on the web. These marriage inventories, often designed and tested by experimental psychologists, tend to rank a couple’s marital health against a “control group” of previously tested marriages. When normed against marriages that have the same demographic markers as the current couple’s marriage, helpful insights are possible.
Conflict: It might sound counterintuitive but a constructive conflict which results in decisions taken for the betterment of the relationship tells how healthy a marriage is. It tells how comfortable the couples are in expressing their dislike towards certain aspects of the relationship.
Each marriage is different, but mutual respect is a staple in each healthy marriage. The best way to know if your marriage is healthy is simply by being honest with yourself. People find happiness in different ways, and it is no good to compare you marriage to other marriages to find out if you’re happy. Comparing your marriage to other marriages is likely to make you MORE unhappy!
How healthy your marriage is determined by how healthy your sex life is. Good sex life equals great marriage. Sex increases intimacy exponentially and if you can get on with each other often, you will be close to each other as well.