Why did I get Married, the Tyler Perry film starring Tasha Smith, Janet Jackson, Sharon Leal, Jill Scott, and Tyler Perry himself is the story about the struggle married couples to remain faithful to one another, while focusing on achieving their goals. Each couple participates in a Mountain retreat that takes place in Colorado Mountains in order to focus on the nature of their marriage, reflect on their love for one another. This provided a break from career, daily routine, to reflect on the state of their marriage, while resolving existing issues, dealing with conflict, while maintaining their love for each other. This movie is a contemporary view of African American lifestyles, culture, and life’s issues. Contemporary viewing in African American media is the direct result of how African Americans have worked hard, to overcome past struggles thus changing culture, ideals, beliefs, creating a new way for future generations. This movie can be seen from a variety of areas, such as education level and socioeconomic class conflict. This can also be seen from the gender perspective, as a rival between female behaviour in a relationship, and male behaviour in a relationship. Class, and education can be further analyzed into the lifestyle that is influenced by it, creating new concerns; hence the marriage problems that differ within education and economic class levels. While numerous other theories; sociological, semiotics, Marxist and others can be employed to analyze this film; I am choosing to analyze this film using Psychoanalytic theory. Within psychoanalytic theory, the Oedipus complex, thus the Electra complex is seen throughout the movie. While every character exhibits this in one way or another, there is one character who exhibits Oedipus complex a great deal; Sharon Leal’s character: Diane. Throughout the movie, her character exhibits this psychoanalytic stage within the psychosexual arena. Psychoanalytic theory is used to analyze the way in which media influences our inner conscious, and explains our deeper desires. Knowing this, it can easily be interpreted that Diane is possibly retained at the Oedipus stage. A potential loss of her husband prompts her to become more aware of her significance as a wife and a mother.