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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re: Inquiring minds

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Load of bullshit, in my experience, and from my observation of others. Just the sort of thing that someone can safely say, though, and have bunches of people thinking it must be true, because they've seen it in print. Feh.

My earlier relationships involved more fighting, and somewhat less sex. The first long-term one (7 years) died for lack of interest in sex (I was a bit foolish to let it go - there are plenty of other reasons the relationship was excellent) but how much fighting there was doesn't seem to have anything to do with it. My mother has been married twice, to men who never fought, and they were both excellent stable relationships that lasted until my father, and then my stepdad, died.

Mostly, I don't fight. There doesn't seem to be any need to, or any point to it. For me, anyway.

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