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Feb 19, 2024 · A 2023 survey of over 1,000 Americans by BetterHelp found that nearly half of Americans (47%) feel stressed about their love lives and people who aren’t married are more likely to feel that ...
Mar 10, 2021 · Many people believe love is a powerful emotional state that is involuntary, that dominates our thoughts, and fills us with passion. But that particular state rarely endures long-term....
Feb 11, 2019 · 4. If people would just put in the effort, most marriages would work. 5. I could be happily married to most people, if they were reasonable. 6. The reason most marriages fail is that people don ...
- Fading enthusiasm. The top concern has to do with the difficulty of sustaining energy and enthusiasm in a long-term relationship. Many partners/spouses find long-term relationships to be tiring and they get bored quickly.
- Long work hours. Some have speculated that divorce rates can be predicted by the length of a spouse’s commute. This research adds credibility to this claim.
- Lack of personal time and space. Feeling ‘suffocated’ or lacking sufficient ‘me time’ is another common reason why people have difficulty maintaining romantic relationships.
- Character issues. People who view themselves as quirky or selfish also have difficulty sustaining long-term romantic relationships. Moreover, people who complain often to their romantic partners — perhaps reflecting deeper insecurity or character issue — also find it difficult to maintain a relationship for the long haul.
- Being loved arouses anxiety because it threatens long-standing psychological defenses formed early in life in relation to emotional pain and rejection, therefore leaving a person feeling more vulnerable.
- Being loved arouses sadness and painful feelings from the past. Being treated with love and tenderness arouses a kind of poignant sadness that many people struggle to block out.
- Being loved provokes a painful identity crisis. When people have been hurt, they feel that if they accepted love into their life, the whole world as they have experienced it would be shattered and they would not know who they were.
- Accepting being loved in reality disconnects people from a fantasy bond with their parents. Early in life, children develop fantasies of being fused with a parent or primary caregiver to compensate for what is emotionally missing in their environment.
Sep 18, 2020 · Findings. In the first study, researchers had 267 men and women complete measures of emophilia (e.g., “I tend to jump into relationships,” “I fall in love easily,” etc.) and a measure of how much...
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Feb 14, 2017 · According to a team of scientists led by Dr. Helen Fisher at Rutgers, romantic love can be broken down into three categories: lust, attraction, and attachment. Each category is characterized by its own set of hormones stemming from the brain (Table 1). Table 1: Love can be distilled into three categories: lust, attraction, and attachment.
