ABSTRACT
This chapter deals with certain psychological features of mating and courtship, with marriage and the interactional patterns of the spouses, and with the effect of children upon the inter-spousal contacts. The beginnings of new patterns of interaction in the founded family, of course, reach to other areas of behavior than the sexual. It is a great mistake to assume that adjustments regarding the phase of spousal relations are the only significant ones—though they are undoubtedly of high importance in our society. There are many additional items to be taken into account in satisfactory marital adjustment. In addition to the problem of attempting to build up a happy sexual adjustment to each other and of trying to work out various mutually satisfactory interactional patterns, other difficulties confront the married couple. Many young married men have a sense of insecurity which is handicapping their adjustment in matrimony.
