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The Emotional Impact of Parental Relationships on Marriage
Many couples struggle in their marriages because they try to replicate the functional examples of their parent's marriages, unaware that their emotional experiences with their parents have a more powerful influence. Children who witness their parent's excellent marriage but experience emotional wounds, such as feeling like outsiders in their parent's close relationship, carry these wounds into their own marriages. They seek to meet their unmet emotional needs from childhood in their current marriage, and this can heavily influence their behavior and satisfaction in the relationship.