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Gender Roles in Marriage: How They've Changed
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Psychotherapy Networker
Explore the practical clinical implication shifts in gender roles among Boomer, Gen X, and Millennial couples. We'll examine issues, including:
- Changing attitudes toward traditional notions of masculinity and femininity
- Understanding how gender equality in younger couples has led to new tensions around diminished sexual desire and other issues
- Strategies for dealing with grandiosity in both men and women
- Teaching women how to successfully modify a partner's behaviors
OBJECTIVES
- Explain why polarity and sexual tension are essential to the health of romantic relationships.
OUTLINE
- Explain why polarity and sexual tension are essential to the health of romantic relationships.
- Exciting sex naturally involves a good amount of dominance, submission, and power
- Women like men who do manly things, although they don’t want to be oppressed by it
- Polarity emphasizes clear definitions of what it means to be a man and a woman, in line with predominant social constructions
- “Soft” men are usually seen as less desirable; many women prefer a natural aggressiveness in sexual matters
- Identify the three phases Terry says are necessary for women to get what they want out of relationships with men.
- Daring to rock the boat: being upfront and confrontational about your needs and desires
- Helping him out: teaching your partner how to be your partner
- Making it worth his while: reducing complaining and giving positive reinforcement and encouragement
- Describe three ways in which Millennials have reinterpreted gender roles.
- Millennials are especially gender progressive
- Millennial women aren’t pushing for a worthwhile career, they expect a worthwhile career
- Millennial men are more comfortable performing tasks traditionally allotted for women, such as raising children and doing housework
- Millennial men are more expressive and emotional, attributes traditionally associated with women
Richard Simon, Ph.D.
Richard Simon, PhD, was a clinical psychologist and the late editor of Psychotherapy Networker, the most topical, timely, and widely read publication in the psychotherapy field. During his career, he received every major magazine industry honor, including the National Magazine Award.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Rich Simon is the President of Psychotherapy Networker, Inc. and the editor of Psychotherapy Networker magazine. He is a published author and receives royalties. He has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Rich Simon has no relevant non-financial relationships.
Terry Real, LICSW, Private Practice
Terry Real, LICSW, is an Internationally Recognized Family Therapist, Speaker and Author. Terry founded the Relational Life Institute (RLI), offering workshops for couples, individuals and parents around the country along with a professional training program for clinicians wanting to learn his RLT (Relational Life Therapy) methodology.
A family therapist and teacher for more than 25 years, Terry is the best-selling author of I Don’t Want to Talk About It: Overcoming the Secret Legacy of Male Depression (Scribner), the straight-talking How Can I Get Through to You? Reconnecting Men and Women (Scribner), and most recently The New Rules of Marriage: What You Need to Make Love Work (Random House). Terry knows how to lead couples on a step-by-step journey to greater intimacy – and greater personal fulfillment.
A senior faculty member of the Family Institute of Cambridge in Massachusetts and a retired Clinical Fellow of the Meadows Institute in Arizona, Terry has worked with thousands of individuals, couples, and fellow therapists. Through his books, the Institute, and workshops around the country, Terry helps women and men, parents and non-parents to create the connection they desire in their relationships.
Terry’s work, with its rigorous commonsense approach, speaks to both men and women. His ideas on men’s issues and on couple’s therapy have been celebrated in venues from “Good Morning America,” “The Today Show” and “20/20,” to “Oprah” and The New York Times.
A proponent of “full-throttle marriage,” as described in The New Rules of Marriage, Terry has been called “the most innovative voice in thinking about and treating men and their relationships in the world today.”
The New York Times book review described Terry’s work as: “A critical contribution to feminist psychology (that) brings the Men’s movement a significant step forward.” Robert Bly hailed it as “moving onto new ground in both story and song. Exhilarating in its honesty.”
Terry’s Relational Life Institute grew out of his extensive and empathic experience. He teaches people how to make their relationships work by providing products and services designed to teach the principles of Relational Life™, so that everyone can enjoy full respect living and craft a healthy life legacy.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Terrence Real is the founder of Relational Life Institute. He receives royalties as a published author. Terry Real receives a speaking honorarium, recording, and book royalties from Psychotherapy Networker and PESI, Inc. He has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Terrence Real has no relevant non-financial disclosures.
