![]() showed that a relationship education program can positively affect people’s knowledge, behavior, and attitudes towards marriage. This program can be taught in a classroom as part of a seminar in weekly workshops or by individual. Relationship education program has been developed in various forms for different age groups such as school students, soldiers, university students and young people who are about to get married in order to develop their skills for having healthy relationships with others. These programs can play an important role in promoting the realistic marital expectations, having appropriate attitude towards marriage, and increasing the optimism about healthy relations and communication skills in young people, especially those who may have a negative attitude towards marriage due to personal experience or history of parental divorce. The target of relationship education program is young people who may be engaged in an intimate relationship. One of the programs that is used in premarital counseling is the relationship education program. Findings suggest that premarital counseling can lead to improved and increased realistic expectations, reduced pessimistic expectations reduced idealistic expectations, individual growth of single girls, improved social skills and self-efficacy of girls on the brink of marriage. ![]() Premarital counseling is an important prevention strategy for families and individuals to avoid the negative consequences of getting divorce. The review of literature on premarital counseling showed that it is one way to change or reduce idealistic expectations and beliefs about marriage. Their relationships begin with a debilitating decline, ignorance of problems, and being superficial, which pushing couples towards frustration and potentially divorce. People who begin their marriage with an extreme idealistic image of their partner and relationship are more prone to experiencing acute frustration than those with less idealistic expectations. Azzopardi believes that marital expectations are the conscious and unconscious senses, concepts, ideals, illusions, desires, hopes and dreams that a person has about marriage. Most scholars conceptualize the marital expectation as a rational and cognitive process. Studies have shown that one of the most dangerous factors that ruins marital satisfaction and its stability is the irrational, idealistic and romantic expectations and beliefs of people from marriage. When people meet each other to create a relationship, they consciously or unconsciously discuss about their expectations for making a coherent story. Couples have expectations from marriage that result from interactions between them and a number of factors, such as family, beliefs, traditions, and etc. ![]() Today, expectations are an extremely important issue for marriage research.
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