When we talk about love, there isn't an exact definition that everyone can agree on. If we look up the word "love" in a dictionary, we will find: 1) a profoundly tender, passionate affection for another person. 2) a feeling of warm personal attachment or deep affection, as for a parent, child, or friend... and there are numerous definitions that describe love, but when we question whether or not we're in love, does this love we talk about last forever?
Helen Fisher, a PhD biological anthropologist, recently wrote in one of her studies, "Data from the Demographic Yearbooks of the United Nations on 97 societies canvassed in the 1990s indicate that approximately 93.1 percent of women and 91.8 percent of men married by age forty-nine," and "Studies of American couples indicate that 20-40 percent of straight married men and 20-25 percent of straight married women will have an extramarital affair during their lifetime.
A study from Rutgers University estimated that currently American couples dating report a 70 percent incidence of infidelity and in a recent survey of single American men and women, 60 percent of men and 53 percent of women admitted to “mate poaching,” trying to woo an individual away from a committed relationship to begin a relationship with them instead.
When we look at the percentages of marriage and the percentages of infidelity, we question if this has any effect on how society perceives the definition of love. Is love a temporary thing or is it something that lasts forever? Do these percentages of the population act upon the idea of love? These questions alone cannot be answered or defined with just words in a dictionary. We ask ourselves, does this have any affect on society if the percentages of infidelity continue to grow? And most importantly, why are the percentages increasing?
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Sources:
http://www.helenfisher.com/
http://www.helenfisher.com/downloads/articles/INFIDELITY.pdf
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