What is the importance of nurturing an intimate relationship and maintaining a commitment to continue the relationship during the middle adulthood stage? How do the prime adaptive ego quality and the core pathology have an impact at this time?

 

Nurturing intimate relationship makes a couple's relationship stronger and this makes them surpass all the struggles in life.

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What is the importance of nurturing an intimate relationship and maintaining a commitment to continue the relationship during the middle adulthood stage?

This can develops closeness to towards each physically and most importantly psychologically. Intimacy is more than just physical but, it implies psychological closeness with each other. With this closeness, the couple is able to know each other's secrets, it's weaknesses and strengths, and it's abilities and disabilities. They develop a stonger relationship. This eventually leads them to overcome successfully the struggles and obstacles in life together. For example: a couple was able to develop their intimate relationship with each other. Intimacy is more than just physical contact but it develops phychological closeness with the couple. If the couple are now close to each other, they are now able to tell their all secrets toward each other and they will be feel comfortable with one another. This makes their relationship stonger enough and this strong relationship will able them to surpass whatever their life gives them till the end, either it's happiness or sadness. This makes the nurturing of intimate relationship very important in maintaining a commitment to continue a relationship in adulthood.

How do the prime adaptive ego quality and the core pathology have an impact at this time?

Prime adaptive ego quality is

the capacity of the mind to direct and control action. The inner voice that focuses attention, encourages and urges you on, especially in the face of obstacles. For example. The husband wants to have a physical contact with his wife but his wife refused because of her personal reasons, his inner voice will let him control himself and that's how prime adaptive ego works.

Core pathology is blocking of one's ability to cooperate, compete, or compromise with others. It should NOT be confused with failure to maintain a monogamous relationship. For example. The husband wants to have physical contact with his wife and the wife refuses. This husband can uses his energy to force his wife but there's in his mind that blocks his selfishness and his ability to uses his energy towards his wife in order not to compromise his wife.

Prime adpative ego quality and core pathology helps a lot on maintaining a good relationship to a couple. Controlling each other's wants and actions in order not to hurt and compromise each other. With these, they are able to respect each other and this makes their relationship stonger.