“…Intimate relationships, such as marriage, are an important part of adult life, and have a direct impact on mental (Norgren, Souza, Kaslow, Hammerschmidt, & Sharlin, 2004), physical (Kiecolt-Glaser et al, 2015) and occupational health (Scorsolini-Comin, Fontaine, Barroso, & Santos, 2016;Whisman, Dementyeva, Baucom, & Bulik, 2012), as well as on the quality of family life (Stroud, Meyers, Wilson, & Durbin, 2015). A significant portion of the Brazilian and international literature has focused on the study of marital quality (Askari, Noah, Hassan, & Baba, 2012;Scheeren, Vieira, Goulart, & Wagner, 2014), which, in the married Chinese women revealed that those who reported higher relationship quality believed that marital problems could be solved and should not be avoided (Dong & Li, 2007).…”