ABSTRAK
ABSTRACT
Fowers and Olson (1989 :1993) said that marital satisfaction is a global evaluation
about marriage life that is walked on marriage areas, include a child presence. When a child didn’t present yet in a family, of course it will influence a walking on household condition. The goal of this research is to find out a marital satisfaction in a couple that
not having child yet. The research participants are two couples of husband and wife that didn’t have a child yet in their marriage. The other characteristic of the participants is five years minimaly on marriage old. This research is done using
qualitative method which is an interview and an observation become a method to get
data from the partisipants. The result of this research shows that area of
communication, leisure activity, religious orientation, conflict resolution, sexual
orientation, famiy and friend relationship, and equalitarian role have satisfaction for
the participant. Meanwhile, area which need a more phase in walk on marriage life is
an acceptance area toward characteristic, couple habbit, and finance management. Both of two participants feel satisfied with areas of their marriage life but they don’t feel satisfied yet without a child presence. Other result of this research is child in law –
parents in law conflict also influence the marital satisfaction for the participants.
