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The significance of romantic love for marriage.
Journal article

The significance of romantic love for marriage.

  • Willi J Psychiatric Outpatient Department, University Hospital, Zürich, Switzerland.
  • 1997-06-01
Published in:
  • Family process. - 1997
Adolescent
Adult
Aged
Aged, 80 and over
Communication
Divorce
Female
Happiness
Humans
Love
Male
Marital Therapy
Marriage
Middle Aged
Personal Satisfaction
Sexual Behavior
Single Person
Surveys and Questionnaires
English In this study, 605 subjects were asked about romantic love and marriage. Married people differentiated themselves from single people with stable partners and divorced people with new partners by more frequently living together with their great love, more reciprocity in that love, and less disappointments in love relationships prior to the current relationship; but they also described themselves as less happy and satisfied than the single and divorced respondents, particularly with regard to tenderness, sex, and conversation with their partners. Independent of marital status, those who were greatly in love with their partners describe themselves as happier. Love at first sight, relative to a gradually developing love, nevertheless, did not have a worse prognosis for happiness in marriage. Being in love seems to be of greater importance for the prognosis of the marriage than marital happiness and satisfaction.
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  • English
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