Desencontros conjugais: uma análise da relação conjugal em Modern Family

Abstract

The objective of this work was to identify how communication can interfere in marital relationships. For this, the phenomenological-empirical method was used, to get to the essence of the marital disagreements of the couple Claire and Phil Dunphy, protagonists of the streaming series Modern Family. Thus, the analysis was performed by synthesizing the invariant and variant aspects of the couple's marital conflicts, which were identified as: difficulty in the couple's interpersonal communication; divergence in the way of understanding the conjugal-family routine; affective and intimate disagreements between the couple; not sharing ideas and feelings with the partner; lack of partnership and companionship at different times and individualized decision making.