“Talk, talk, ple-e-eze talk to me, honey!” This is the marriage advice most wives would give their husbands, according to 207 women who participated in an online poll conducted by the website, www.MarriageAdvice.com. So, whatever happened to sex, money and who’s going to take out the garbage?
HOUSTON,TX (PRWEB) October 17, 2005 -- The results of a poll conducted on a new website – www.MarriageAdvice.com – that provides marriage advice in articles authored by family therapists and other marriage experts, debunks the notion that sex, money and who helps out most around the house are the biggest marriage problems couples face.
Of the 207 women participating in the poll, more than 40 % said the single biggest frustration of their married lives was that their husbands “didn’t communicate enough.” Husbands who “don’t help out around the house,” came in a distant second at 19%. Husbands who “aren’t responsive to a wife’s sexual needs” came in at 14%. Thirteen percent of the wives polled said their biggest marriage gripe was their husband’s “lack of financial responsibility.” Likewise, 13% said their spouses were “not good fathers.”
Garrett Coan, a Bergen County, NJ, psychotherapist (www.CreativeCounselors.com) whose marriage advice appears in several articles posted on the website said the results may surprise some people, but “it doesn’t come as a surprise to me that the women who participated in this poll cited poor communication as the runaway biggest problem they face with their husbands.”
Coan said poor communication skills are not unusual in men. “Women want to talk things out but many men just shut down. This kind of behavior can eventually shut down a marriage”
Nancy Wasson, a Birmingham, AL, marriage counselor (www.KeepYourMarriage.com) who also contributes articles to www.MarriageAdvice.com says couples can better deal with problems that center around sex, household responsibilities and financial management, “as long as healthy communication exists within the marriage. Good communication is the foundation for everything else.” The Ph.D. psychologist says wives are often the first to recognize that communication is a marriage problem.
What marriage problem highlighted in the poll concerned wives the least? Only 10% of the women were worried that their husbands “worked too hard.”
For more information about this poll,or to participate in other online marriage polls and read articles contributed by marriage experts, visit www.MarriageAdvice.com or call (281) 993-5657.
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