Comparing Selected Levels of Communication Between Fiancée, Fiancé and Spouses
Comparing Selected Levels of Communication Between Fiancée, Fiancé and Spouses

Summary/Abstract: A man, coming to the world in a family community, reaches maturity and in most cases sets a family of his own. Traditional transition from the family of origin to family of procreation combines with engagement followed by marriage as a family subsystem. These periods characterize with high dynamics of changes taking place within the marital subsystem. Bride and groom, and later married couple face the need to discuss family matters, negotiate marital roles, develop compliance and their identity, regulate marriage intimacy, solve conflicts, as well as, run their household. Undoubtedly, planning and organizing life requires developed communication skills. The author, guided by these premises, has sought to present some aspects of communication for engaged couples and spouses with many years of experience. Isolated groups were not accidental. Main reason was the ability to analyze the results in terms of convergence and divergence of views and assessments shown by brides and married couples at different stages of marriage – family life. Therefore, structure of this text was built by the following variables’ categories: frequency of conversations in the family and their themes, communication barriers between spouses and fiancés, ways of improving the flow of information between partners.

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