Hello y'all,
I used to think that consummate love couldn't last long because adaptation effects would inevitably extinguish passion and therefore, the most a long term couple could hope for was companionate love (it should be pointed out that these are specialized terms). It turns out, thankfully, I was dead wrong!
Bianca Acevedo and Arthur Aron (of Stony Brook University) discovered that, "romantic love, without the obsession component typical of early stage romantic love, can and does exist in long-term marriages, and is associated with marital satisfaction, well-being, and high self-esteem."
Excelsior!
C.L.Sosis
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