Living ‘Private Life in the Public Gaze’: Mental Health and Wellbeing

Abstract

One of the key issues being investigated in this book is the wellbeing of the intermarried couples in relation to various life domains. In the previous chapter, we found that these couples are influenced both by ‘outside’ and ‘inside’ aspects and in this chapter an attempt is made to bring these aspects together, among others, through the concept of gaze. By drawing on the narratives, I examine the mental wellbeing of the couples, not in a narrow clinical sense, but in terms of self-understanding and significant relationships.