It has been observed from the study of a sample of 5,000 resident Americans that the major reason for break-ups and divorce in relationships and marriages is the lack of compassionate love for each other. If you don’t have hot, compassionate love for your partner, your relationship is going down the drain.

As it said, hooking up is an uncommitted, sexual encounter between two people who are not currently in a romantic relationship with one another. Hooking up seems reckless. Definitely those who engage in one-night stands are risking sexually transmitted infections, unwanted pregnancy, and emotional trauma. Nevertheless, a psychological research in 2014 revealed that over 66 percent of single men and 50 percent of single women reported that they had engaged in a one-night stand—and these numbers have been fluctuating over the past four years. The question now is—Why do people have sex with someone they hardly know?

Perhaps you learn a lot about a person between the sheets. You might even jump-start a real relationship: Any stimulus of the genitals promotes dopamine activity, which can potentially push you over the threshold into falling in love.

Close relationship researchers have proved that couples who live together as a couple before marriage (and are not engaged) are more likely to experience a divorce or, if they remain together, they may experience poor marital quality otherwise known as “an unhappy marriage”. The “cohabitation effect,” occurs because many couples living together before getting engaged or married, slide into marriage through a process of apathy. Rather than critically evaluating whether the relationship is right for them, they make the decision to marry out of factors such as convenience, wealth, temporal peace and the sex.

There was an online study of nearly 600 married and cohabitating couples in which the female partner was less than 45 years old. In the study the following were considered; sexual satisfaction, communication, and conflict. The respondents of the study indicated their relationship tempo by saying how long the couple waited, after they started dating, to have sex. They tried to control a number of other important variables such as age, number of previous marriages, children, education, income, and financial strain. The researchers later compared the quality of the relationships of couples who waited less than a month, 1-6 months, and 6 months or more before having sex. The findings of the research supported the hypothesis that having sex early (defined here as within a month of dating) in a relationship was related to an unhealthy relationship outcomes for men and women. These four additional findings flesh out that overall conclusion and point to some sex differences as well:

1. Couples tend to move quickly into sexual relationships.

Over one-third of the respondents reported that they started having sex within one month after they started dating. Other research studies have shown that a lot of people indulge in sex after the first date. The research shows that moving quickly into sexual relationships with your partner does not strengthen your marriage or relationship. You should give yourselves time to understand and do the findings on each other before having sex with one another.

2. The slower the sex, the better the relationship.

For women, the longer the delay between dating and sex gives the lady a better perception of the current relationship quality. Slowing things down for women meant paying much more attention to other factors that would ultimately improve the relationship such as commitment and emotional intimacy. The longer you delay having sex with your partner in a relationship, the better your chances of understanding such a partner and also better chances of having a long-lasting relationship or marriage.

3. Early sexual activity symbolized relationship commitment.

Again for the ladies, having sex early in the scheme of things signified to them that their partner was committed to the relationship but it might not be so depending on who your partner is. If your partner is a toxic partner and desires to take advantage of you, having sex will not mean anything to him or her.

4. Entry into cohabitation accounted for the negative effect of relationship tempo on quality.

Couples who had sex in the early stages of their relationship were more likely to decide to live together and, in turn, had less satisfying and unhealthy relationships. Having sex early in a relationship, followed by cohabitation, allows women to be less satisfied with the sex they’re having now with their partner.

In conclusion, research findings suggest that early sexual relationship in the dating relationship has different impact on the satisfaction levels of women later on. It also proves that slow sex and easy love leads to a long-term relationship/marriage.

Author Bio:- Sylvia Smith is a relationship expert with years of experience in training and helping couples. She has helped countless individuals and organizations around the world, offering effective and efficient solutions for healthy and successful relationships. Her mission is to provide inspiration, support and empowerment to everyone on their journey to a great marriage. She is a featured writer for Marriage.com, a reliable resource to support healthy happy marriages.