{"id":6089,"date":"2009-10-28T13:13:45","date_gmt":"2009-10-28T13:13:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jesuscreed\/2009\/10\/realistic.html"},"modified":"2009-10-28T13:13:45","modified_gmt":"2009-10-28T13:13:45","slug":"realistic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jesuscreed\/2009\/10\/realistic.html","title":{"rendered":"Realistic?"},"content":{"rendered":"

From CNN.com<\/a>… <\/p>\n

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In the age of hookups, friends with benefits and online dating, and as human life expectancy grows, is it still reasonable to expect people to pair up and stay monogamous until death do them part? <\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n


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 “It’s realistic that some people can mate for life in the same sense that some people can play the Beethoven violin concerto or other people can ice-skate beautifully or learn a new language,” said psychiatrist Judith Eve Lipton. <\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n


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Added evolutionary biologist David Barash, “It’s within the realm of human potential, but it’s not easy.”Lipton and Barash, who have been married 32 years and are the co-authors of “Strange Bedfellows” and “The Myth of Monogamy,” said serial monogamy may be more realistic — a model in which people move from one committed long-term relationship to another and choose partners for different reasons at different stages of their life.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n


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If you disagree, and I certainly do, what are you doing to show, teach, and pass on marriage as permanent and the significance of fidelity?<\/b><\/i><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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