Spousal Relation in Post-Retirement Life

Marriage binds couples together in a spousal relation to form a family [1] and this transition includes moving in together, becoming a parent, children reaching adolescence, relocations, and job changes. It is a traditional norm of the society. It does not only renew the race. It is system of continued existence of every society throughout the globe. Thus, life transitions later in marriage are determined by becoming grandparents, changing health, death of parents, retirement, and widowhood, etc. [2]. Both of the male and female as marital partners are co-dependence and co-supportive. It does not fulfill legitimate physiological desires. It fulfills also social, economical and cultural thrust of human being. This relation dynamic sustains generally in spite of different stress and strain in conjugal turmoil. But at postretirement life this conjugal or spousal relation becomes truncated and loses its strong necessity. Consequently, it becomes a burden to the elderly spouses many times. A study was conducted to examine the spousal/conjugal relationship in post-retirement life and its effect in their last stage of life cycle [3].