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The Crisis of Midlife Couples and Christian Counseling

  • Journal of Counseling and Gospel
  • Abbr : Jocag
  • 2010, 15(), pp.137-159
  • DOI : 10.17841/jocag.2010.15..137
  • Publisher : Korean Evangelical Counseling Society
  • Research Area : Humanities > Christian Theology > Pastoral Counseling
  • Received : September 20, 2010
  • Accepted : November 12, 2010

Kim Mi Kyung 1

1한영신학대학교

Candidate

ABSTRACT

Midlife has important meaning in one’s adulthood, bringing some different types of emotional change such as dilemma, agony, happiness or developmental task. Taking leave of old things in the past time, midlife can be a crucial turning point to start one’s life over again. As longest period in life circle, midlife is a so-called sandwich generation and prime days at the same time. Also, people in this period become to show generativity and activeness to readjust them to rapidly changing environment, feeling the limit of possibilities in the future. Couples in their midlife are confronted by the question, “How can I manage the rest of my life?”. This simple but meaningful question may be the key of readjustment. Midlife couples who spent most of life to support their sons and daughters with full of responsibility are now coming back to the empty nest without romance and passion they used to have in their youth, being forced to re-evaluate their marital relations. Conflicts are generally coming from lack of communication or misunderstanding between the couple and their family members. This crisis, in modern society, may cause a family break-up, so it is required to lend assistance for them through Christian counseling followed by the extensive diagnosis on the reason of crisis.

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