By Blaine Powell
Most people at some point in a relationship will meet someone who looks like they would be a "better" partner. However, marriage includes the expectation of primariness: the commitment of both partners to keeping each other the most important person in their life. Usually couples agree that primariness will include the expectation in which partners promise to have sexual relations only with each other (Reiss, 1986; Pittman, 1980):
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