Abstract
ABSTRACTResearch suggests certain aspects of military life, especially operational deployments, may negatively impact military marriages. However, much of this research is from the United States and uses deductive quantitative methods. Qualitative research investigating the lived experiences of forming and maintaining marriages was conducted with six male U.K. Army personnel. Semistructured interviews were analyzed, using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis, identifying five themes, each representing different dilemmas the soldiers’ had to balance to maintain successful marriages and Army careers. These five themes are best understood as practical, emotional, and cultural dilemmas that can be alleviated with practical and emotional methods; such factors could be used to build resilience in soldier’s marriages. These possible resilience factors could shape the content of interventions to increase resiliency in military marriages.
Highlights
While the majority of UK military personnel do not report relationship difficulties, a greater likelihood of reporting relationship problems was mostly associated with childhood adversity, limited support for and from partners, being in unmarried relationships, financia
The sample included males serving in the Army who were: aged 25 to 34 years, Non-commissioned Officers (NCO), previously deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan, in a marital relationship, and who had no recent history of general mental health problems (as assessed with the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ) (Goldberg & Williams, 1988) and the National Centre for post-traumatic stress disorder checklist (PCL) (Weathers, Litz, Herman, & Keane, 1994))
All the soldiers gave the impression that despite the challenges they had faced, they were happy with their marital relationship
Summary
While the majority of UK military personnel do not report relationship difficulties, a greater likelihood of reporting relationship problems was mostly associated with childhood adversity, limited support for and from partners, being in unmarried relationships, financia.
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