commitment. Hendrix&Hunt1908 conclude that many people do not quit a toxic or dead relationship because they prefer an empty relationship to an empty house while deriving whichever scraps of fulfillment they can from outside the arrangement.
Clinical pastoral counselor H. Hendrix 1909 claims that -according to his experience- the number of relationships one has to go through in order to find a working one is -on average- nine (9). One can easily ponder the possible dire personal, legal and financial implications of such a state of affairs.
Couple therapist Perel claims that in our day marital infidelity proves to be a very inflammatory concept. Perhaps -the present writer adds- because it shows how the “love&fulfillment marriage� emperor has no clothes on.
While this same poll showed growing acceptance of divorce, premarital sex, and having babies out of wedlock, the 91 percent disapproval rate for cheating is nearly twice what it was 40 years ago, when similar surveys showed that only half of American adults believed that having an affair was always wrong. -...-The "capstone" model presumes -...- that you only should get married "after you've got your shit together." -...-The capstone model is much less forgiving of sexual betrayal because it presumes that those who finally get around to marrying should be mature enough to be both self-regulating and scrupulously honest. The increased unacceptability of adultery is linked to the rising age of first marriages. The evidence suggests, however, that the capstoners are more than a little naĂŻve if they imagine that a rich set of premarital life experiences will serve as an inoculation against infidelity. (Schwyzer 2013: no page).
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