Marriage: Romantic Love is NOT Enough to Make it Work | Dhamma Talk | Ajahn Dhammasiha

A couple getting married was interested to get some advice on Buddhist teachings how to make a marriage work, so that it lasts long and both spouses can live in harmony.
Ajahn Dhammasiha cites a study done in Italy with functional MRI brain scans, that claimed to have found that the feeling of romantic love biologically not designed to last for decades;
in fact, the researchers considered the absolute maximum duration as approximately 4 years or so (though often it is much shorter).
This seems to agree with personal experience of most people.
As marriage is usually supposed to last a whole lifetime, it follows that romantic love lasting max 4 years can not be a sufficient foundation.
Instead, a married couple has to build up other qualities in their relationship, which sound much less 'romantic', but actually do last for a lifetime...
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