To the degree that we are not fully formed as individuals when we marry we will build our marital relationship upon incomplete personal honesty, unrealistic expectations, and unstable foundation. This is a commonly heard truism often spoken by older individuals in the culture. At the same time it is far more often the truth than not; it is the norm to embark on marriage with huge amounts of dysfunctional anticipations that are intrinsically unrealizable. This sobering reality highlights another general truth, that for whatever immature unsustainable reasons that relationships begin with, what matters most are the mature and enduring reasons for relationships to continue.
About Orin Borders, Ph.D.
Orin Borders, Ph.D, a psychologist in private practice with a long standing interest in the Marriage-Of-Opposites, is the originator on this site.
