Romance has largely been disproved, however. Consult any divorce statistic. Sex is alive with all its
ramifications.....How can two adults NOT end up hating each other in the long run? That I'd like to know.
Terry: perhaps if our expectations more closely matched what is undoubtedly the statistical social norm, namely serial monogomy, we'd all be quite a bit happier. The "one true love" and "till death do us part" ideas don't align with empirical reality for most people, so why are they still almost universally held onto as both the ideal and the perceived norm? No doubt bullshit morality, specifically "sexual ethics," plays no small role in this.