Marital and Parenthood Satisfaction in People with Emotional Cutoff with Their Father

Most recent studies about fatherhood phenomenon emphasize the decisive importance of the father’s role in the psychological, social and cultural development of children, adolescents and adults, and also note the influence of family history and relationships in the parental family on significant relationships in adulthood and the formation of ideas about one’s own parental role. This work is devoted to a quantitative study of the characteristics of marital and parental satisfaction in women aged 25–45 with children aged 3 to 10 in relation to the emotional cutoff with their father. A comparison of groups of respondents with and without an emotional cutoff with their father revealed the following features: women with experience of an emotional cutoff with their father are more likely to show rejection of the child’s personal qualities and behavioral manifestations; they may experience difficulties in perceiving themselves and their partner as a parent due to insufficient or specific experience in their own parental family; they worry more about the safety of their personal boundaries, they may be more sensitive to their violation and perceive this as a threat to their emotional stability and autonomy in relationships with their partner. The results of this study also suggest that solid marital experience helps develop a more adaptive and cooperative communication style in marriage and co-parenting. Perhaps rethinking and processing emotional experience and emotional cutoff with the father helps in building more conscious marital and parent-child relationships.