The Future Of Love By Barbara Graham Analysis

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Barbara Graham’s article, “The future of love: kiss romance goodbye, it’s time for the real thing,” claims that because unrealistic expectations for romantic love may undermine marriage, we should develop a new model for love and relationships. Few can deny what Graham, author of the satire women who run with poodles and writer for vogue, silt, common boundary, Utne Reader, and other publications; calls that love yearning is shaped by myths and romantic fantasies. The problems in marriage are real, and Graham’s point of view is true and it could be achievable in reinvent the concept of marital relationship. So, developing a new model for love and relationships is good enough? Grahams point of view should be take into consideration but it will …show more content…

We expect the passionate love of fairy tales to lead to “happily ever after” in the institution of marriage, and when this fails, we move on and try it again. But, the idea that marriage should be based on love rather than upon social and economic concerns is a relatively recent practice in human history (para4-7). While the romantic marriage ideal doesn’t fit with tradition, biological evidence is mounting against it as well. Biochemists are discovering that love and lust have hormonal causes, and their evidence suggests that our biological makeup predisposes us to seek the excitement of short-term relationships (para8-9). Despite all the difficulties, we spend a lot of the time analyzing the elements of relationships in order to preserve or perhaps reinvent marriage. We clearly want to make it work (para10-12). Because confining passionate love to the institution of marriage hasn’t worked very well, Graham ends by suggesting that we ought to revise our model for human relationships …show more content…

Nowadays with the women movement, women have a new view of their role and status in society and many men are still uncertain how to respond to this change. The influence of equality between two gender have changed the dynamics of relationships and the traditional roles of earlier generations have become more diverse with several styles of relationships. This have challenged expectations of marriages and could lead to undermine marriage. So, Conflict and breakdown may occur when one or the other partner changes and the other does not understand how to renegotiate their role within a

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