What gender, in general, is more disatisfied with marriage--males or females?

Question

Are guys more unhappy with thier marriages over all or gals? What is your guess?

I think it is probably guys?????

Answer 1

I would tend to say that it's fairly even, within a few percentage points of each other and well within the margin of statistical error. What surprises me is this. If everyone who's complainging about their marriage were to put the effort that they spend complaining into actually working on their relationship, the rate of bad marriages would go down by a lot.

BB,
Raji the Green Witch

Answer 2

Well it truely depends on the couple and their individual personalities. I mean I could say men because of the status they are expected to live up to. They are supposed to be the strong one, the one who "brings home the bacon", the provider and for some men, it means not showing emotions that they need to get out. But the role that women are expected to play puts much stress on them as well. They are expected to take care of the kids, the house, the shopping, the husband, and look good and be happy. marriage is very demanding for both sexes and its really hard to say which is more unhappy. Sorry that I didn't directly answer your question, but thats my opinion on the whole thing. I think men and women are both unhappy because they feel like they can't communicate with eachother, which is completely untrue, if couples learned how to express their feelings without negative action or words, the world (and marriage) would be much happier! It would pass down to their children and so on and so forth.

Answer 3

From what I have observed I really think it depends on what the person is going into the marriage wanting or expecting, for men they may want the perfect wife, clean home, great meals, hot sex, great kids ect.... for women they may want the best home or comfortable spending money.
When life does not go a certain way it really depends on the person whether they cry foul or whether they buck up and go through what marriage really is LIFE the good the bad the hard to go through and everything else in between.

Answer 4

Actually, it's usually the woman. When a woman gets married to a man with minor issues, she assumes that these issues will change over time. But they don't. So when it becomes a problem for her, not because he has the issue, but because he won't or can't change the issue, she begins to complain because she is now unhappy. The man is often time confused by this, because as far as he knows, he hasn't changed anything about himself, so he thinks "why is she angry all of a sudden, i'm not doning anything i wasn't doing before"? Which is true.
But as the woman vents her frustration with his inability to change himself at her request (which she then interprets as him disreguarding her feelings) she begins to nag him about that particular issue, and then because she is so upset, about other issues as well.
The more she expresses her "feelings" in a negative mannor, the more the male becomes unhappy because he now views his wife as "a b*tch".

So, there it is - in a nutshell. Hope it helps.....

Answer 5

I think its the same if you are unhappy with your marriage you shouldnt have gotten married but many people today are unhappy with their marriages.I think women will try to make it work and deny all the conflicts in their marriage but men will act ignorant about the subject and still want to stay,when really they should just leave.people should just be more open about problems in their marriages or else they wont be able to work things out.I think it depends on the person.

Answer 6

I think that women are more unhappy because of the way men take us totally for granted. When you marry someone you marry them for companionship and partnership, I didn't get married so I can raise an extra kid. 3 is enough, my husband should be able to care for himself, he just chooses not to (just a little unhappy with the situation over here;))

Answer 7

My guess is that it is the women. For women are the ones who mainly take care of the kids and clean the house while men continue to go to work and come home to watch football or whatever. It seems its the women who are always wanting more out of a marriage.

Answer 8

Women have it worse. There are so many expectations of women as wives and so little for men as husbands. Like what does he have to know? Go to work, come home, scratch himself and eat and crap.

Women have a longer list of what's expected, from looking perfect and beautiful to raising kids (primarily) to having the prettiest house on the block and best cooking....etc... she doesn't even have time to eat or crap!

Answer 9

I thought your question was interesting so I looked up statistics and it says 60-70 percent of adultery victims are women so obviously men cheat more than women and I'm guessing it's because they are unsatisfied with their marriage.

Answer 10

Haha -- I don't know.

But in a marriage class that I took in college I learned that men were happier in their marriage if they just did what their wives asked of them. I thought that was great -- lol!