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The Divorce Paradox: Does Love Fade?
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Series: Philosophical Questions
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ISBN13: 9798248287178
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Feb 13 2026
Pages: 232
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.49 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Feb 13 2026
Pages: 232
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.49 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Why does love fade? Not because you chose the wrong person, and not because you failed to try hard enough. The fading of romantic passion is a structurally predictable consequence of human biology operating inside cultural institutions that demand permanence from a system designed for impermanence.
In The Divorce Paradox, Boris Kriger draws on neuroscience, evolutionary biology, economics, and dynamical systems theory to reveal the ten mechanisms that conspire against long-term romantic partnerships-from the brain's built-in reward adaptation and a provocative extension of the Westermarck incest-avoidance effect to the contagious spread of divorce through social networks, the distorting influence of social media, and the quiet narcissistic dynamics present in every relationship.
In The Divorce Paradox, Boris Kriger draws on neuroscience, evolutionary biology, economics, and dynamical systems theory to reveal the ten mechanisms that conspire against long-term romantic partnerships-from the brain's built-in reward adaptation and a provocative extension of the Westermarck incest-avoidance effect to the contagious spread of divorce through social networks, the distorting influence of social media, and the quiet narcissistic dynamics present in every relationship.
Based on the author's peer-reviewed research, including the formal paper Structural Viability of Dyadic Systems: A Dynamical Account of Romantic Dissolution (Kriger, B. (2026). Structural Viability of Dyadic Systems: A Dynamical Account of Romantic Dissolution. Zenodo. https: //doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18632250 ), this book translates rigorous academic analysis into accessible, witty, and unflinching prose. It does not moralize. It does not prescribe. It illuminates the forces at work-biological, psychological, social, economic, legal, and technological-and identifies the control variables through which couples can, in principle, resist the default trajectory toward dissolution.
Neither a self-help manual nor a counsel of despair, The Divorce Paradox is a map of the territory every intimate partnership must navigate-drawn with scientific precision, delivered with sardonic honesty, and offered with the conviction that understanding the problem is the first step toward addressing it.
Neither a self-help manual nor a counsel of despair, The Divorce Paradox is a map of the territory every intimate partnership must navigate-drawn with scientific precision, delivered with sardonic honesty, and offered with the conviction that understanding the problem is the first step toward addressing it.
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