PSYC 275 Lecture 4: Content, Lecture # 4 on Marriage, Intimacy and Expectation
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Lecture # 4 on marriage, intimacy and expectation. Upon the completion of this lecture, students will be able to: Recognize motives (both good and bad) for marriage. Understand marital expectations and its complex, challenging and vague meaning. Recognize the characteristics of strong and successful marriages: write and document their own understanding of marital expectations as it relates to their attitudes and emotional needs formation. Marriage could be defined or viewed in many different terms; note that for now, we are only referring only to the traditional definition of marriage a newly desired definition is currently being debated, but not yet formulated. A union of two opposite (or same) gender for life; A social order contract for the stability of society; An institution filed with its own laws and orders; A certain financial gain toward social and economical status; Lifelong committed companionship with a single partner; A duty for satisfying needs for sexual drive (monogamy);
