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KMID : 1025820180260040549
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Family and Family Therapy
2018 Volume.26 No. 4 p.549 ~ p.573
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Long-term Marriage Maintenance of Middle-aged Couples: A Hermeneutic Phenomenological Study
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Yoon Un-Ha
Kim Hyun-Joo
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Abstract
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Objectives: The purpose of this study was to describe the experiences of couples living happily while maintaining a “long-term marriage” (more than 20 years), and to explore the implications of these experiences.
Methods: Five pairs of married couples in their 50s with high marital satisfaction were selected as study participants. Data collection, data analysis and writing procedures were based on van Manen's hermeneutic phenomenological method.
Results: Four major themes were identified: “Making a couple's fence in the family conflict,” “Living together in a balanced way as us and as me,” “Orienting towards a common value,” and “Walking along the road of ‘aging’ with the only intimacy.” Ten subthemes were also derived.
Conclusions: This study explored deeper understandings of marriage among long-term middle-aged couples with a high level of marital satisfaction.
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KEYWORD
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middle-aged couples, long-term marriage, marital satisfaction, phenomenology
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