Love and physical attraction may take the backseat, especially when the children arrive, but fulfilled couples know that they must stick it out, through thick and thin, for the sake of the emotional well-being of the children

Love and physical attraction may take the backseat, especially when the children arrive, but fulfilled couples know that they must stick it out, through thick and thin, for the sake of the emotional well-being of the children. 

 

When couples think of others and not just themselves and make a continuing effort to make the marriage work, they’ve made the best investment they could ever make and they firmly believe in this. 

 

The need to make the partnership work is often the secret of happy marriages.  As Masters and Johnson said, “Although these marriages may be loveless, they are not necessarily bad.  Even good marriages are susceptible to a disappearance of love.”[1]

 

 

Marriage and Instinct

 

 

Dr. Mary Pipher, a therapist and anthropologist, points to the family as still an essential unit of the community.  When people get married, their hopes are linked to building a home and family. 

 


[1] William Masters, Virginia Johnson, Robert Kolodny.  Masters and Johnson on Sex and Human Loving.  Little, Brown & Company, Ltd. USA. 1985.



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