Many Marriages Are Ruined by Complexes Says a Lecturer

Manawatu Times, Volume LVI, Issue 7062, 23 January 1933, Page 2

Many Marriages Are Ruined by Complexes Says a Lecturer

Complexes aro chiefly to blame for unhappy marriages, according to Dr J. A. Hadiipkl, lecturer, in pscho-patho-loy, mental liygicno, at London University. Hero are a few scones from married life which ho mentioned in a British Social Hygicno Council lecture in London:—• “One of tho commonest complexes is that of tho husband with the mother complex. Ho feels tho need of a mother. ‘ Thou there is tho complex of tho potted little gill', who goes on wanting her husband to treat her like a father, make a pet of her and do nothing but fondle her. When children como sho is jealous of thorn because sho wants to bo tho only child in the homo. “There is tho father complex of the girl who has adored and adores her father and despises tho husband sho marries. “If children were brought up mentally healthy from early childhood so that they did not liavo these abnormal complexes, then we should solve tho marriage problem,’’ he said. “Widows and widowers, if their first marriage has been a failure, nearly always make a mistake in their second marriage. "If marriages of opposites are to be be made successful, thero must bo a common purpose in life. “The kind of marriage where people live on an old romance is almost bound to fail. When people go for their holidays to the placo whero they spent their honeymoon I am inclined to think thero is something wrong about it.”