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The keys to a long-lasting marriage

This series of new psychological studies suggests the real issue in marriages is not the faults you notice in your spouse and try to point out. Rather they suggest that the best therapy for couples is to encourage more deluded thinking. If you are going to insist on being realistic, then maybe marriage is not for you.

Link via Mahalanobis (he's quoted more of the article).

Coincidently, The Eclectic Econoclast recently shared not unsimilar thoughts on marriage.