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MARRIAGEprise and it seems to agree with my own experience. Tosome extent it lies in the relationship of the two sexes tomarriage. To a woman marriage means more than toman, because in the care of husband and child and householdit necessarily absorbs a larger part of her being, sothat if there is a sense of disappointment that disappointmentis more serious. A man is more detached from homeand family because his life is usuallyso much outside.Home occupies a smaller section of his field of activity;it constitutes a haven of rest. A woman, on the other hand,must often feel that marriage is her whole life, and deeperproblems are thus stirred within her. This brings us toDickinson's significant observation that the main differencebetween the adjusted wives and the maladjustedwives is that the former are more objective, and lesstroubled by mental conflicts. They are, in other words,more like the average husbands.But the discontent with marriage which we so oftenfind among wives, even though more or less below thesurface, has a real foundation. It is associated with thenew and larger claims on life which the women of recentgenerations have more and more taken, not content liketheir mothers to accept as natural and inevitable the predominanceof men and their own place of subjection. Thereligious and social aspects of the world have changed forwomen without in any corresponding degree changing formen, because the change has for women been in largemeasure socially recognized and legally registered. Thebut little. So that when atraditions of men have changedwoman enters marriage she isapt to become aware of adiscrepancy which tends to become a mental conflictwithin herself. There are many women old-fashionedromantically minded women brought up away from menas well as more modern girls who realize even during thea