Marriage Case Analysis

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Today in society there are many young people that are in relationships and often times they want to engage in marriage. In this case with Sarah and Dave, the outcome of that might not look so good between the couple because I believe that they won’t make it. Today, I’ll be discussing in my opinion that they couple aren’t right for each other for marriage and they are not they’re right for each other for long term. According to this passage, when things are tough, Dave tends to turn his stress on Sarah and become critical whereas Sarah tends to withdraw and avoid. In that scenario I would assume that Dave would take his anger out on Sarah and could be abusive verbally and or physically and Sarah would just turn away and do nothing about it. This could be a cue that Dave …show more content…

(Cicchetti, 2015, p. 249) This could result in dysfunctional relationships and the marriage quality would be bad. According to the textbook there is a graph that illustrates that over the past decades from the 1970s to the early 200os that marriage happiness has decrease over time which means that happy marriages have become less common over time which ultimately results in divorced. (Santrock, 2015, p. 445) Another clue in the passage I found was that they are in a long distance relationship so often times that wouldn’t work because they don’t spend enough time together because relationships are better when they’re always in person and they’ll know more about each other when they spend together in person since they live far away from each other. So I would suggest that it wouldn’t work out between the two because relationships work when couples see each other often rather than communicating from long distance. I would advise that possibly that one of them should leave their current home in order to test if living together is a good or bad thing and wait more time for marriage instead of jumping into conclusion by rushing into marriage in a short amount of time due to it being a big

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