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Ineffective
communication patterns (insufficient talk about significant things)
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Sexual
incompatibilities (as differences in sex drive, inhibited sexual drive
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Anxiety
over making and/or maintaining a long-term commitment
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Financial
difficulties
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Job
stress
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Fewer
shared activities
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Reduced
exchange of affection
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Infidelity
(greater than 50% of men are unfaithful; the percentage of women is also
increasing; an affair is really an escape)
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Lack
of sensitivity or indifference to a partner’s feelings or wishes
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Conflicts
over power and control
Undeveloped
problem-solving skills (the art of compromise)
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Conflicts
over money, independence, in-laws or children
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Physical
and/or emotional abuse
An inability
to respond positively to changing role demands, such as the return to work
by one partner or birth of a child
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Unexplored
differences in expectations
