The six month thing is an average, thats all...no magical light flashes into everyone's head at the six month mark...the trend is such that most affairs end around the six month mark.
I would argue that if you separated that by gender you would find the affairs for men last shorter and the affairs of the women last longer than six months. Why? Because women are long term thinkers. Women have long term commitment on their mind more than men in most cases.
Men tend to be more fond of the shor term flings. Its likely men who are driving the numbers down and women are pulling them up.
Six months is just an average, I can pull out education, age, gender, and a variety of other variables to flip that six month point up or down. Its just statistics...you guys are reading to much into it.
We don't have to get into that, but my point is that this is just math, not some magical prophesy.
I can suggest the same with anything. How long does it take a green bananna to ripen into a yellow one? If I said most ripen within four days it is senseless to jump up and down screaming "my bananna has been ripening for five days and its still green!"
Guess what, that bananna is not the average, or the variables of the banannas environment are such that they vary from the norm.
Michele's point is clear in all her work. Use statistics to GUIDE GOOD HEALTHY relationships. Don't use them as prophesy to respond from negative instincts.
OK, so someone's affair lasted ten months instead of six. Yup, its gonna happen to some people. One out of every four drivers supposedly gets into a serious car accident too.
Lets all stop driving then! Lets be angry because we have been in TWO , or point out we know someone who has been in TWO seroius accidents.
Its just numbers, where any one individual falls on this line is variable and always will be.
YOU control the variables, YOU decide if you WANT to be a statistic. THAT's the part to focus on.
