Inquiring minds

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via klwalton, an article called "Why Marriages Fail" (http://www.shrinktalk.net/archives/why_marriages_fail_1.phtml) contains the following quote:

couples that don't ever fight eventually don't have sex either. Why? They are both forms of passion. If you give up one form of intensity you'll ultimately leave the other as well.

Is this true in your experience?

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[pachamama.livejournal.com]

I think this correlation might be quite common, but if so I maintain it really isn't about passion at all, it's about communication. Sex and arguments are both signs of two people striving to communicate and engage with each other. When you lose the will to communicate is when a marriage fails. For me personally, my marriage failed with plenty of arguments and plenty of sex, so it's clearly not the only factor either. In my current relationship there is plenty of communication, very little of it argumentative, and tons of great sex. But it's also still in NRE, so who knows how that will change in the long haul.

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