TYPES OF MARRIAGE LIFE-STYLE: THE BOAR D-OF-DIRECTORS MARRIAGE

March 27th, 2009

When two people live together for a long period, married or not and even if they are of the same sex, they need to work out some kind of structure which will enable them to function as a unit. Many marriage ‘experts’ have classified such relationships within marriage in great detail but because of shortage of space we will look here only at the four commonest types.

The boar d-of-directors marriage-This type is increasingly common and is seen to some extent in all good marriages. In such a marriage there is a sensible division of labour (often in fact dictated by convention) and by and large decisions are made jointly after discussion. The person best at a particular task does it. There are certain areas of married life which men seem to tackle better than women and vice versa. This, of course, does not mean that women cannot mend cars or that men cannot make dresses but, on balance, given the way we are made and brought up, certain jobs remain culturally attached to each sex.