Marital and Transition to Parenting: Weaknesses and Possible Overruns

Abstract

The marital relationship reflects the coexistence of two individuals who love each other and chose to live their lives together. It is expected that this close coexistence can consolidate this relationship, making it stable and able to cope with the changes in family life cycle and the vicissitudes of everyday life. However, they cool the relationship, going to demonstrate weaknesses and conflicts in the marriage. The previous shared intimacy fades, creating distance and spontaneity break between the couple. Understand the situations that happened in the transition from conjugality to parenting is essential to clarify the reasons for the existence of mutual unfulfilled expectations, misunderstanding and sense of failure. These feelings may interfere in both education and development of children who were borned in such an important moment in the life of the new family. The purpose of this paper is to identify possible causes that may lead to deterioration of the couple’s relationship and may affect the parental relationship, using theoretical and presentation vignettes of couples that occurred in clinical practice, with similar characteristics and complaints.