Chun Pong Ho
PSY 303 Lab- Intro. part
7/28/2006
In the past, many studies have shown that married couples have a higher level of
satisfaction compared to dating and co-inhabiting couples. However, in today’s society,
couples are more likely to live together before or instead of getting married, causing many
people to believe that the correlation between high satisfaction and marriage no longer exists.
This can be explained by the high divorce rate within the society. Inconsiderate decision
making regarding marriages highly affected the rate of divorce, and most likely the
satisfaction within those relationships. Decision making on rather or not to be dating or co-
inhabiting instead of getting married affected the society, especially the society structure.
Traditionally, marriage represents a strong commitment. It gives a couple a protective and
reliable relationships due to the protection of laws given to marriages. However, as time
passed by, people in today’s society are scared of commitment. Many people do not want to
get married simply due to the fact that a law-protected relationship can be reliable but yet a
burden. There are a lot of responsibilities between a husband and wife under the law, such as
being responsible for their next generations. Because of this reason, it highly affects a
couple’s willingness to get married. When a couple chooses not to be married, the
relationship will then not be protected by laws, it would become unreliable and
uncontrollable. They will have fewer responsibilities towards the relationships and also their
partners. It turns out that people would give up each other easily.
[I’m not really sure what you’re trying to say in the paragraph above- remember that you are
arguing that one group will be more satisfied than another. Do you believe that people in
marriages will be happier because they have a commitment? Or unhappier because they enter
the commitment too soon, leading to dissatisfaction? Are people content to be in non-
