Relationship between premarital counselling and marital success: Perceptions of married Christians in Ghana

What accounts for the endurance of forced marriage (kahwin paksa) narratives in Malaysian public culture? How does one explain the ways popular fascination with forced marriage relate to assumptions about heteronormative institutions and practices? In a society where most who enter into marriages do so based on individual choice, the enduring popularity of forced marriage as a melodramatic trope in fictional love stories suggests an ambivalence about modernity and egalitarianism. This ambivalence is further excavated by illuminating the intertextual engagement by readers, publishers and booksellers of Malay romantic fiction with a mediated discourse on intimacy and cultural practices. This article finds that forced marriage in the intimate publics of Malay romance is delivered as a kind of melodramatic mode, a storytelling strategy to solve practical problems of experience. Intertextual narratives of pain and struggle cast light on ‘redha’ (submission to God’s will) and ‘sabar’ (patience), emotional virtues that are mobilised during personal hardship and the challenge of maintaining successful marital relations. I argue that ‘redha’ and ‘sabar’ serve as important linchpins for the reproduction of heteronormative institutions and wifely obedience (taat). This article also demonstrates the ways texts are interwoven in the narratives about gender roles, intimacy, and marital success (or lack thereof) and how they relate to the modes of romantic melodrama.

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Mate choice, marital success, and reproduction in a modern society

Ethology and Sociobiology ◽

10.1016/0162-3095(95)00104-2 ◽

1996 ◽

Vol 17 (1) ◽

pp. 17-35 ◽

Cited By ~ 69

Author(s):

Tamas Bereczkei ◽

Andras Csanaky

Keyword(s):

Mate Choice ◽

Modern Society ◽

Marital Success

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Protestant Fundamentalism and Marital Success Revisited

Psychological Reports ◽

10.2466/pr0.1990.66.3.905 ◽

1990 ◽

Vol 66 (3) ◽

pp. 905-906 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

Walter R. Schumm ◽

Gyung Ja Jeong ◽

Benjamin Silliman

Keyword(s):

Protestant Fundamentalism ◽

Marital Success

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Marital Success from the Perspective of Kozielecki’s Transgression Model

Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric ◽

10.1515/slgr-2015-0016 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 40 (1) ◽

pp. 321-333

Author(s):

Andrzej Dakowicz

Keyword(s):

Specific Form ◽

Personality Structure ◽

Marital Success

Abstract Spouses exhibit two kinds of behaviours: protective and transgressive. Protective acts are those aiming to overcome current problems, leading to preserving some balance. Transgressive acts are deliberately overstepping everyday marital reality and doing new things in new ways. They lead to changing the relation with the hope of improving it, but also create the risk of deterioration. The more transgressive behaviours spouses exhibit, the more chances they have to get to know each other and experience the joy of being part of a union. Transgressive tendencies stem from a network personality structure and consist of five psychons: cognitive, instrumental, motivational, emotional, and personal. The success of a marriage is the effect of a specific form of transgressive behaviours in marriage exhibited by both spouses, which is recognizing difficulties as they appear, finding their sources, and taking steps together to overcome them.

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Kedewasaan Usia Perkawinan Perspektif Hadis Nabi Muhammad dengan Pendekatan Interkoneksitas Maslahah

Al-Manahij Jurnal Kajian Hukum Islam ◽

10.24090/mnh.v15i1.3731 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 15 (1) ◽

pp. 83-98

Author(s):

Abdul Gaffar ◽

M Ali Rusdi ◽

Akbar Akbar

Keyword(s):

Married Couple ◽

Marital Problems ◽

Marriage Age ◽

Social Maturity ◽

Minimum Age ◽

Primary Reference ◽

The Government ◽

Marital Success ◽

Age Of Marriage ◽

The Ideal

Indonesian Muslims have not maximally applied maturity of marriage age as an important aspect in obtaining marital success. Apart from the concept of maturity of diverse marriage age, divorces and many marital problems based on the immaturity of a married couple still rife in Indonesia. The government has even issued regulations related to the age of marriage through Law number 1 of 1974 that was revised by Law number 16 of 2019, which stipulates that marriage is limited to a minimum age of 19 years for the two brides. This article aims to find the concept of quality-oriented marriage age to complement the quantity-oriented idea as applied by the Indonesian government and as understood differently by Muslims based on the opinions of the scholars (‘ulamā). This article abstracts the concept of the ideal age of marriage from the instructions of the Prophet Muhammad PBUH as the primary reference of Islamic teachings by discussing the hadīth using the ma‘ānī al-ḥadīṡ analysis with three interpretation techniques namely textual, intertextual, and contextual interpretation to obtain comprehensive meaning. The results of the examination show that the hadīth requires the criteria for the maturity of the marriage age in the form of religious, physical, financial, and social maturity. These qualitative criteria fulfill the element of maqāṣid al-syarī‘ah and are interconnected so that they should be actualized as a new basis in the formulation of policies related to the maturity of marriage age in Muslim societies.

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The Rainbow’s Generational Masochisms

Ordinary Masochisms ◽

10.5744/florida/9780813066677.003.0006 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 99-122

Author(s):

Jennifer Mitchell

Keyword(s):

Second Generation ◽

Interpersonal Interaction ◽

The Novel ◽

Three Generations ◽

Marital Success ◽

Husband And Wife

Husband and wife in D.H. Lawrence’s The Rainbow equally embrace and use masochism as a tool of intense interpersonal interaction. Lawrence approaches the first Brangwen generation, Tom and Lydia, with a subtle gesture to their capacity for masochism. As their daughter, Anna, marries Will, this second generation is marked by a keen consciousness of the need for mutual masochism in order to render their partnership successful. Anna and Will are extraordinarily well-matched and, in many ways, could be considered Lawrence’s marital ideal. In direct conversation with the flat and failed masochistic experimentation of their daughter, Ursula, Will and Anna’s relationship is telling in its dynamic reciprocity. This chapter traces the three generations in the novel and the ways in which Lawrence’s portrait of marital success is contingent upon the recognition of marriage as an already accepted, socially and legally sanctioned form of masochism.

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