KEEPING LOVE ALIVE
Scientists are probing why some married couples can maintain the spark for years.
(The Wall Street Journal, Feb. 8, 2008)
(PDF of original;Link to story on wsj.com)The story also comes with a video:
by SAM SCHECHNER
Ann Tucker is pushing a shopping cart through the produce section of a supermarket in Plainview, N.Y., when she turns to kiss her husband. The supermarket kiss is a regular ritual for the Tuckers. So are the restaurant kiss and the traffic-light kiss. "I guess we do kiss a lot," says Mrs. Tucker, a 39-year-old mathematician at a money-management firm.
Mrs. Tucker is living happily ever after, and scientists are curious why. She belongs to a small class of men and women who say they live in the thrall of early love despite years of marriage, busy jobs and other daily demands that normally chip away at passion. ...