PSY 3121 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Premarital Sex, Casual Sex, Playboy Foundation
14 Dec 2016
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Dissolving relationships have become more common over the past 50 years. The divorce rate has risen, but married couples are less likely to separate than other types of couples. Two intensive studies of divorce (riessman, 1990; hetherington & kelly, 2002) revealed similar stories. Divorced m and w felt that their marriages had failed to fulfill their expectations, but people tended to blame their ex-spouses rather than the institution of marriage. A majority of divorced m and w remarry. Women feel more joy post breakup, more likely to blame partner, men morel ikely to distract selves. W are more likely than m to initiate a breakup, and the financial consequences of divorce are usually more serious for w than for m. The emotional consequences affect both, providing pain as well as feelings of satisfaction from learning to live without a spouse.
