Many people marry for different reasons. To each their own. In my eyes, I married for my forever partner. Beauty fades and I want more than a bang. I want someone who’s brain will be my partner more than their body.
The “make friends first” method works for me for this. Yes I want to have sex but I don’t want my intimacy to be wasted.
jaycifer@lemmy.world 4 days ago
I only read the abstract, but that appears to not be the case, and a majority of relationships start as friendships: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8892041/