married again??

[James]

Perhaps the economic consequences of seperation seem too great to leave . . .

But what you are describing is essentially friendship. I think a lot of people stay in relationships that have devolved into mere friendship. Where familiarity and sporadic bursts of affection have replaced romantic love . . .

Where that is the case, do you advocate people stay in the marriage to preserve the friendship or economic union and seek exciting sexual relations outside the marriage?

I think that sex in any relationship should be motivated by much more than a periodic release of tension . . Which is what it often becomes in relationships where the romantic love has faded.

Originally posted by LeslieAGD
Re-read my post...I didn't say you did say that. What I stated in my post was that, IMO, too many people get divorced because they don't feel that same attraction to their spouse that they did in the beginning. A marriage has to be about more than physical/sexual/etc. attraction. If someone married another person without a sense of companionship or common interests or some other backbone to the union, then of course that marriage is more likely to have problems.