Wednesday, July 20, 2022

Men And Women, Relationship

  • Men work more: Nearly Half of Men Say They Do Most of the Home Schooling. 3 Percent of Women Agree.
  • On cheating: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/10/why-happy-people-cheat/537882/: "As I [therapist] listen to her, I start to suspect that her affair is about neither her husband nor their relationship. Her story echoes a theme that has come up repeatedly in my work: affairs as a form of self-discovery, a quest for a new (or lost) identity. For these seekers, infidelity is less likely to be a symptom of a problem, and more likely an expansive experience that involves growth, exploration, and transformation... By falling for someone from a very different class, culture, or generation, we play with possibilities that we would not entertain as actualities... Under the spell of passion, lovers speak longingly of all the things they will be able to do when they are finally together. Yet when the prohibition is lifted, when the divorce comes through, when the sublime mixes with the ordinary and the affair enters the real world, what then? Some settle into happy legitimacy, but many more do not. In my experience, most affairs end, even if the marriage ends as well. However authentic the feelings of love, the dalliance was only ever meant to be a beautiful fiction.
  • How Long Does It Take to Fix a Marriage? Give the Gottmans 7 Days.

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