The Influence of Partner’s Mental Health on Marital Dissatisfaction

For a healthy relationship or marital life, both the partners need to be supportive and psychologically fine. It has been examining by studies that why the mental health of partners is significant to maintain a healthy and happy relationship. The influence of partners on mental health could be both negative and positive, and you never know what the satisfactory factors are in marital life. The successful, fragile, and botched relationships are measured by the level of depression and stress of both the partners. Simply the marital satisfaction is associated with both partner’s levels of depression.

Researchers have found that there is a great impact on the spouse’s anxiety and depression level on relationship satisfaction as well as on spouse satisfaction. It is important to check how satisfied the partner feel with their spouse. If one partner is mentally disturbed stressed, has anxiety or depression there will be a significant impact on their relationship. Moreover, it has been also observed that if one partner is suffering from only anxiety there will be a lesser impact on marital life.

Researches done on masses has declared that, if a person is living with a spouse who is suffering from depression, the other partner would feel more burdened and sad because of the symptoms of the other partner’s depression.

Moreover, there is no way to handle life with a depressed partner and his/her persistent symptoms regardless of disconnecting. The depressed person always has negative feelings and that person always view the relationship and partner negatively, always expecting harm or marital failure or see their partner as cheating. When compared to the people who are living a healthy life they have a positive worldview and think positively about their partners.

There are no gender differences when it comes to marital satisfaction as per the researchers, even if the husbands or wives both have the same symptoms of anxiety and depression. Moreover, it has also been studied that, if both partners have a similar level of anxiety or depression they are at a high risk of marital dissatisfaction.

Well, it is really important to evaluate the mental health of both partners before marital dissatisfaction occurs. If the proper treatments have been taken before the problem appears may help prevent future problems in marital functioning. Depression, stress, and anxiety in both the partners decline the marital life and brings poor relationship and dissatisfaction double as compared to the couples in which only one partner have mental health problems.

Majorly, couples are recommended to handle each other’s mental health problems if both partners has similar symptoms, as people who are suffering from psychological issues can better understand one another’s problems. While, if one person has depression, it is important to help him/her to cope up with the problem just to prohibit the dissatisfaction and marital problems. Take your partner to a good psychologist, stand by him/her and take her out of the darkness. There is no permanent solution to mental health problems more than the love and care of a partner.