The Four Year Itch discusses various marriage arrangements and the divorce phenomena around the world. Why is it socially unacceptable for a couple to divorce? Did divorce originate in the Western world or elsewhere? What is the relationship between divorce and economic self-sufficiency of men and women? Do you think human beings are incapable of monogamy and does it go against our basic biology; our natural instinct to populate the world? The article illustrates that divorce is common and has occurred for centuries in many cultures. Fisher explains that if a couple is economically dependent on one another, they are less likely to divorce than an economically independent couple. If a woman is bringing home a salary of her own, she may be less tolerable of an unhappy marriage. With the Industrial Revolution and the rush of women joining the work force, the divorce rate in this country sky-rocketed.
In this article, Fisher also asks whether women are naturally more monogamous than men, "I think we're going to come to find, as women become more economically powerful and express their sexuality more during the course of this century, that women are just as adulterous as men". Fisher outlines monogamy in both humans and animals and discusses the reasons why we fall in love, how we become attached, and sometimes, more often than not, how we handle rejection.
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