The question of why this or that relationship fails is unanswerable, partly because everybody’s circumstances are so different. But there is a general truth about sexual relationships: As you’ll see below, passion fades. Before it does, however, it can fill a multitude of lurking potholes. Once it’s gone, the simple recognition that two people are ill-matched in personality or temperament probably accounts for many separations, and at least some of the roughly 43 percent of all first marriages in the United States that dissolve. Even then, though, breaking up really is hard to do, more
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