Growth Marriage

Dr. Wendy Walsh on The Value of Sex


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The price of sex has dropped from, in our grandmother's generation, it was probably a year of dating, in my generation it was 3 dates. We had a thing called the 3-date Rule in the 80's. Now the price of sex has dropped down to the barrel-bottom price of one well-worded text.

What it takes to grow a long term bond isn't sex. It's everything else! It's communication skills, conflict resolution skills, empathy, compassion. It's really hard to develop those when your brain is being assaulted with a dopamine rush not unlike the one you get from heroine that you get from a new sexual relationship.

Men can have sex with the same woman every week for 6 months and not like her any more after 6 months than they did on the first day.

Just because you're having sex, doesn't mean you're in love.

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