Comparing the effectiveness of emotion-oriented couple therapy and cognitive behavioral couple therapy on forgiveness of couples with marital conflict with an emphasis on reducing marital burnout

Marital burnout is defined as a set of emotional, physical, and mental fatigue symptoms that have significant impacts on married life. Marital burnout occurs when couples realize that their relationship is unable to meet a series of basic needs and the parties experience painful states of fatigue, monotony, depression, and a sense of failure in married life. Marital boredom with different dimensions of health in communication. In the physical dimension, it is associated with low general health, a weak immune system and cardiovascular disturbances. In the psychosocial dimension, in addition to the significant symptoms of depression and anxiety, it shows a tendency towards harmful behaviors, and in the emotional dimension, it is associated with resentment. apathy, depression, loneliness, lack of motivation, feeling stuck, worthlessness, emotional conflict and even suicidal thoughts are known. Numerous researches that have been conducted on the factors related to marriage show that sexual issues are among the most important issues of couples in terms of importance. One of the most effective and important variables in sexual satisfaction is the quality and how couples communicate with each other.

In this article, the issue of comparing the effectiveness of emotion-oriented couple therapy and cognitive-behavioral couple therapy on the forgiveness of couples with marital conflict, with an emphasis on reducing marital burnout, has been discussed. The findings showed that emotion-oriented and cognitive-behavioral couple therapy in the post-test phase reduced marital boredom and its dimensions in couples. Of course, emotion-oriented couple therapy has shown a lower Level of significance in the scale with cognitive-behavioral couple therapy