It has to be considered from various points of view such as education, culture, compatibility, the economics etc. Tragically, despite the best efforts of parents, relatives, and well wishers to match a couple as best as possible, many marriages fail many more marriages than we would like to believe. Failure in marriage does not necessarily mean only the extreme step of divorce. Often, failure is a long-drawn, painful process or one, from which there seems no way out. Conflicting demands of home and work, children, sexual incompatibility, alcoholism, extra marital affairs, lack of interpersonal relations, lack of proper communication, lack of trust, lack of understanding, and problems of superiority or inferiority complex are just a few of the various factors that affect a marriage.
Marital failure results in different consequences for different persons.
Apart from personal unhappiness, trauma for children, the persons involved are unable to achieve their full potential in terms of education, career, sports and cultural activities. Too much time and effort goes into coping with incompatibility or a breaking relationship. Marital Therapy Marital therapy attempts to revive marriages that are unhappy and on the brink of a break-up. While it does not offer magical solutions, it helps the couples to put their problems in better perspective, and opens up certain guidelines that help them to cope with the problem on hand. Marital therapy is to help couples find solutions to cope with the challenges and threats posed by today s complex lifestyles, besides those posed by the marital relationship.