The symbolism of rituals creates a shared understanding of events among group members. In the context of romantic relationships, a shared understanding of relationship status transitions may be associated with greater commitment and higher quality relationships. We argue that couples with differing retrospective accounts of their premarital courtship may not have had clear discussions or ritual...

This paper explores and tests the claims made by Chapman (1992) in his popular press book, The Five Love Languages: How to Express Heartfelt Commitment to your Mate. One of Chapman’s fundamental claims is that couples where partners receive their respective preferred love languages experience higher quality relationships than couples who do not. Couples (N = 83) reported their preferences for a...

Fragile Families data (n = 1,702 couples) are employed to examine the association between mother and father reported parenting characteristics (father involvement and coparenting) and transitions out of cohabitation through marriage or separation in the five years after a child is born. Father involvement and coparenting may be signs of commitment and investment among couples without the legal ...

Freddy Lay’s book conveys a new approach towards mentoring service, which is Mentoring Companionship. It an accompaniment based on relational mutual trust, commitment, and humility to be able mentor responsible one another. Based his book, offers 4 models of Companionship, such as: man-to-man, Group Mentoring, Couples Mentoring. Moreover, according Lay, these are applicable six categories coupl...

In this paper, we examine the question of whether religion—affiliation, beliefs, and practice—provides a source of marital strength and stability in the lives of American couples. Unlike most previous studies, we focus on religion and marital quality among 433 lowincome married couples with co-residential minor children, using recently collected survey data on both spouses sampled in the Marita...

In two studies, implicit theories of relationships were examined as moderators of the association between experienced conflict and commitment. Study 1 involved 128 individuals in heterosexual romantic relationships and employed an event-contingent diary procedure in which disagreements were recorded throughout a 10-day period. Study 2 was conducted in the laboratory and involved 75 heterosexual...