Marriage is a process wherein adjustments are necessary to make a marriage work. Adjustment means altering or modification. The goal of adjustment is relief from tension. Adjustment may be achieved by one person’s changing his behaviour, by the other’s changing his attitude, or by a change in the elements that compose the situation – such as income, housing, or proximity to relatives. Everybody has to make adjustments not only in the beginning of his marriage but throughout his married life. Marital adjustment is, therefore, dynamic rather than static. For some, the adjustments are so easy that they don’t even know they are adjusting. For others, adjusting is a conscious and deliberate process of learning to understand, to accept, and to change. When adjustment does not eventuate, the tension may produce dissatisfaction or failure.
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