The Effect of Lovemaking on Satisfaction of Marital Life

Love is the essence of life and everybody needs it. Love manifestation leads tocreativity and restraining it leads to corruption and annihilation. All human beings,in spit of their racial, cultural and religious differences, share some common needsamong which is the need for love, affection, and friendship. Nothing as much as lovehas always been interesting to be researched. It is a search that lasts from cradle tograve. In this study, a lot has been done to explain the true love and to distinguishthe real love from unreal. Also, how to have such a successful marriage and theeffective factors in such a success have been investigated. In this study, the questionis to see if there is a relationship between lovemaking and the satisfaction of maritallife. Researching about the topic and its background, the research procedure is asfollows: 30 couples, aged 25 to 35 from Kashan city were selected as sample. Aquestionnaire on satisfaction of marital life (ENRICH) and the scale of SteinbergTriangular Love were taken as research tools. Finally, the relationship betweenlovemaking and the satisfaction from marital life was measured. t>12.13 was greaterthan the one in the table (1.98) at level of 95% and (2.617) at level of 99%. Theconception of Zero was rejected. Therefore, the research hypothesis is true. Thismeans that the relationship between lovemaking and satisfaction from marital life ismeaningful.