Sometimes i wonder why people stay together in couples. I see what happens around me. It's like the relations cancels the personalities and the meaning of everything is to be together even if that means fighting, insulting, feeling guilty etc.
From Wikipedia:
"An intimate relationship is a particularly close interpersonal relationship. It is a relationship in which the participants know or trust one another very well or are confidants of one another, or a relationship in which there is physical or emotional intimacy.
Intimate relationships play a central role in the overall human experience.[1] Humans have a universal need to belong which is satisfied when intimate relationships are formed.[2] Intimate relationships consist of the people that we are attracted to, whom we like and love, romantic and sexual relationships, and those who we marry and provide emotional and personal support.[1]attachments and fulfill our universal needs of belongingness and the need to be cared for.[1] Intimate relationships provide people with a social network of people that provide strong emotional
The systematic study of intimate relationships is a relatively new area of research within the field of social psychology that has emerged within the last few decades.[1] Although the systematic study of intimate relationships is fairly recent, social thought and analysis of intimate relationships dates back to early Greek philosophers.[1] Early scholarly studies were also interested in intimate relationships but were limited to dyads or small groups of people in the public and narrowly examined behaviours such as competing and cooperation, negotiation and bargaining and compliance and resistance.[1]"
It doesn't say so much about fighting. I was in a relationship for many years where I only wanted attention, but it was never enough and I guess no one was really happy. But of course, you live you learn.