Young Married Couples

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I serve as a consultant for a marriage guidance class, my responsibility is to advise young married couples so they can work through their relationship and improve their communication. For this marriage guidance class, I will be introducing two articles, the first article, “Man to Man, Women to Women” by Mark A. Sherman and Adelaide Haas, and the second article, “His Talk, Her Talk” by Joyce Maynard. The criteria that I will be evaluating for these two articles will be the problems that most most married couples encounter which is miscommunication and misunderstandings. Secondly, I will present the solutions that are provided in the article and lastly, the sources. Since both partners in a relationship need to be able to express their needs and preferences without the fear of being attacked either verbally or physically, young married couples must read articles that give advice on how to improve their relationship. In the first article, “Man to Man, Women to Women” Sherman and Haas point out that “misunderstandings often develop that lead to major fights.” This may occur most of the time when both partners have poor communication. One major reason this happens is because “men and women like to talk about different topics.” Not having the same interest in variety of topics between couples, may lead to miscommunication. Ranging from different topics, females tend to lean towards on topics of “problems, family, health and reproductive concerns” where men tend to talk more about “music, current events and sports.” Men and women like to talk about different topics but they may disagree with each others ideas. At times, some young married couples may be married for 2-10 years but they might still be “intimate strangers” which is a greater problem for a relationship. There can be many problems in a conversation between men and women. Sharing relationship experiences
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