
Seriously, Don’t Steal Someone Else’s Partner
Stealing someone else’s partner makes for an awkward “how we met” story, and yet more than half of relationships begin this way, according to one estimate.
New York Times pointed out recently a new study published in the Journal of Research in Personality suggests that these may not end up being the greatest relationships.
The people who’d abandoned one committed relationship for their current one were “less committed, less satisfied and less invested in their relationships,” the authors write. Christian Jarrett, a psychologist and author of the new book Great Myths of the Brain (excerpted here), summarizes the findings on the British Psychological Society’s Research Digest:
The researchers admit that more study is needed to better understand relationships that begin this way, but it seems like we’ve got some more scientific evidence behind the saying, Once a cheater, always a cheater.