Abstract
Free love, dyadic marriage with or without nonconsensual adultery, swinging, open marriage, intimate friendship, evolutionary communes, and group marriage are points on a continuum of increasing complexity in interrelationship, free love representing the least complex and group marriage the most complex relationship in which intimacy occurs. The proposed model suggests that these are innovative rather than deviant marriage alternatives, their antecedents in society, and how couples move from one to another point on this continuum. The model reconciles inconsistencies between previous studies, suggests areas for further research, and provides a cogent way of analyzing and evaluating pair-bond behavior.
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