"He showed that premarital involvement with just one sexual partner ...

"... tripled the risk of divorce..."



From the article, "Don't wait for marriage" in U.S. Catholic -- September 2010 by John Van Epp, author of How to Avoid Falling for a Jerk.


"I like to refer to this attitude as What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas.

"Obviously, this cannot be true because what occurs in relationships, no matter how insignificant, carries some measure of influence on you, the way you think, and what yo take into your next relationship.

"As scripture says in what is both an encouragement and a warning, You reap what you sow.

"A sobering example of this was found in the research on women by Jay Teachman from Western Washington University.

"He showed that premarital involvement with just one sexual partner other than the person a woman eventually married tripled the risk of divorce as compared with those who had only had sex with their husband..."