Objectives:
The goal of this study was to assess the perception of marital relationship and its mutual connections by parents of patients with EDs. Data from: 54 patients with restrictive anorexia, 22 with binge-purge anorexia, 36 with bulimia, and two control groups: 36 patients with depressive disorders and 85 schoolgirls.

Methods:
The study employed the KRD-KOR dyadic Family-Assessment -Questionnaire.

Results:
Wives in the BUL group, compared to wives in the NOR group, rated their husbands worse when assessing their husband in terms of how well he functioned in the marital relationship, performance of his duties, affective involvement, and the integrity of his values. Wives in the ANR group, compared to wives in the NOR group, negatively rated the affective involvement of their husbands. Husbands in the DEP group, compared to husbands in the NOR group, rated their wives worse when assessing their wife’s general functioning in the marital relationship, degree of communication, degree of understanding, how well she performed her spousal duties, and the coherence of her system of values. The image of the marital relationship held by parents of schoolgirls was characterized by a strong correlation, in contrast to the image of the relationship held by parents of (female) patients, regardless of the nature of the disease diagnosis.

Conclusions:
Comparing the results of parents of patients with eating disorders and parents of patients with a diagnosis of major depressive disorder revealed no difference in the image of the marital relationship, whether in the mutual assessment or in connection with the assessments.