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Patsy Rae Dawson

Web survey powered by SurveyMonkey.com. Create your own online survey now with SurveyMonkey's expert certified FREE templates. Marital Satisfaction Survey Survey Information This survey is for married individuals to gather data about successful marriages. Marital satisfaction inventory (MSI) Snyder, Douglas K on Amazon.com.FREE. shipping on qualifying offers. Marital satisfaction inventory (MSI). Wallas Marital Adjustment Test (MAT), Spanier's Dyadic Adjustment Scale (DAS), Snyder's Marital Satisfaction Inventory (MSI), Roach, Frazier and Bowden's Marital Satisfaction Scale (MSS), Norton's Quality Marriage Index (QMI), Schumms's Kansas Marital Satisfaction Scale (KMSS), Olson, Fournier and Druckman's ENRICH: Enriching and Nurturing.

Why I Use a Marriage Inventory

The discussion begins with an overview of the MSI-R (Marital Satisfaction Inventory-Revised), emphasizing scale structure and composition, administration and scoring, and empirical foundations of reliability and validity. Attention then shifts to clinical use in assessment and treatment of distressed relationships. A basic interpretive strategy for configural analysis integrating both partners. Jamieson, Rachel V., 'A Revision of the Marital Status Inventory: Reliability and Validity with Marital and Remarital Couples' (2007). Theses and Dissertations. This Thesis is brought to you for free and open access.

About five years after I'd written Marriage: A Taste of Heaven, Vol. I: God's People Appreciate Marriage, a woman showed up at our door. She said, “I know your mother, and she told me about your marriage book. Can I come in and talk to you and your husband?”

We invited her in. She proceeded to tell us how horrible her husband and his family were. His brother was in jail for murdering his wife, and on and on she spun the gory details. Three times I interrupted her, “Why are you here? Can we get to the question?”

Each time, she replied, “I'm getting there, you need to know this.” That was at the height of the Dallas TV saga of J.R.'s scandalous behavior and Bobby's naïve innocence. She rattled off enough material for me to write at least ten episodes.

After a couple of hours my husband said, “This is Wednesday, and I need to teach a class. I can only give you thirty more minutes.” She finally got to the point: She had committed adultery and her husband planned to divorce her. She wanted to know if there was any way to save her marriage, and if they did divorce, what did her future hold.

I thought, If he's so rotten, why do you want him to take you back? She seemed to think the two hours of slandering her husband and his family somehow justified her unfaithfulness. She left us with only thirty minutes do deal with major problems. We never saw her again.

Three Lessons I Learned From That Experience

1. Set time limits up front. I can always add more time if I need to.
2. While the appalling history might create an interesting TV series, it seldom adds anything to solving the actual problems.
3. When the he-said-she-said is taken out, most marriage problems can be reduced to one or two issues that can be answered with classic solutions. The main exceptions are long-term spouse abuse and sexual addictions that have progressed into cluster sins.

Getting to the Point Produces Results

Over the years, I've found that skipping the drama and focusing on the problems works well. For instance, a lady called and asked to come discuss her husband's adultery, stating it was the second time in many years that he'd visited a prostitute. I told her, “Before you come, go online and read my booklet “Adultery and Sexual Addiction: A Plan for Healing the Soul and the Marriage.”

When she arrived, the first thing she said was, “Where do I begin?”

I verified that she'd read the booklet then said, “I have just one question for you. The first time your husband committed adultery, did you handle it properly?”

She said, “No.” We spent the rest of our time customizing the homework in the booklet for her and setting up time frames to accomplish each part. I wrote down what I expected her to complete by the time we met again. To this day, I know none of the horrific details. She labeled it as the second episode of adultery and that was all I needed to help her find peace within herself and to begin working on saving her marriage. The painful details belonged to her and her husband to work their way through. My job was to offer hope and to help her develop the skills to make that journey with her husband. I didn't need to dig around in their private injury.

Sometimes the various elements are important, but frequently they contribute nothing to solving the problem. So I've devised the short “Marriage Inventory” to help get to the core of the matter.

10 Questions to Help Take Your Marriage to a New Level

The questions don't cover all possible marriage issues, just 10 major areas that can spawn lots of conflict. The examples in parenthesis reflect the beginning of each problem rather than years of build up. If the marriage has progressed beyond the beginning stages, the questions should still be answered in the affirmative.

This can be seen in '4. Does your marriage have physical abuse in it?' where slapping and pinching may have progressed to sending the mate to the emergency room. The questions are not about the degree of the problem, but simply determining the target area where the focus needs to go. This inventory is based on over 35 years of my working with both men and women. Check everyone who does each of these things in all applicable areas whether in the beginning stage or more advanced:

1. Does your marriage have emotional neglect in it? (Each going his or her own way, not listening or sharing, too busy to spend time together, etc.?)

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