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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My first response to that statement is that it's probably valid if they really mean NEVER, no matter what, even if you're angry you hold it in. Even when the people are involved are generally reasonable about working things out, there's a fairly good chance that some time the situation will be severe enough, or someone will be biochemically upset, so the encounter gets unreasonable.

And that's my second response--judging from these comments, it clearly depends on what "fight" means also. What one person might call a "tense discussion" another might call a "fight." I probably have a pretty broad definition of "fight," including "any tense discussion in which voices are raised."

So I'd say the statement is probably true, but it depends on definitions also.