{"id":14250,"date":"2019-09-06T13:33:06","date_gmt":"2019-09-06T13:33:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/squad\/?p=14250"},"modified":"2019-09-06T13:33:06","modified_gmt":"2019-09-06T13:33:06","slug":"study-we-repeat-old-patterns-in-new-relationships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/relationships\/study-we-repeat-old-patterns-in-new-relationships\/","title":{"rendered":"Study: We Repeat Old Patterns in New Relationships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Even if you\u2019re in a brand-new relationship, chances are you\u2019ll return to the same patterns from your previous relationships.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not necessarily good or bad; it just what researchers found when they studied the issue recently.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<h3>Criteria for measurement<\/h3>\n<p>The research team, which included scientists from Germany and Canada, looked at the data for 554 people to study the partnerships and family dynamics of Germans who had been in more than one intimate partner over the course of the study. They specifically looked at four key points:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> A year before their first romantic relationship ended<\/li>\n<li> During the final year of their first intimate relationship<\/li>\n<li> Within the first year of their new relationship<\/li>\n<li> In the second year of their new relationship<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Within the romantic relationships, the researchers looked at seven features:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li> sexual satisfaction<\/li>\n<li> frequency of sex<\/li>\n<li> communication<\/li>\n<li> relationship satisfaction<\/li>\n<li> conflict frequency<\/li>\n<li> how frequently the partners expressed appreciation for each other<\/li>\n<li> how much confidence each person had that the relationship would endure<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h3>The findings<\/h3>\n<p>Overall, the patterns related to the bulk of these seven features stayed the same across past and present relationships. But there were two exceptions: expressions of admiration toward their partner and frequency of sex. Both of those features tended to increase in the new romantic relationship. It\u2019s not that the sex was necessarily better in the new relationship compared to past relationships. In fact, sexual satisfaction stayed the same.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThings get worse as a relationship ends, and when we start a new one, everything is wonderful at first because we\u2019re not involving our partners in everyday life like housework and childcare,\u201d explains lead author Matthew Johnson. \u201cThe relationship exists outside of those things. There\u2019s a lot of change in between [relationships], but more broadly, we do have stability in how we are in relationships.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even if you\u2019re in a brand-new relationship, chances are you\u2019ll return to the same patterns from your previous relationships. It\u2019s not necessarily good or bad; it just what researchers found when they studied the issue recently.\u00a0 Criteria for measurement The research team, which included scientists from Germany and Canada, looked at the data for 554 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14255,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[736],"tags":[727],"class_list":["post-14250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-relationships","tag-relationships"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14250\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}