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According to the popular song, “Love and marriage go together like a horse and carriage, you can’t have one without the other.” Literally, of course, this is not true; but, as the song implies, most people believe that love and marriage augment each other. Both are better together than either is separately.
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Perlman, D., Fehr, B. (1986). Theories of Friendship: The Analysis of Interpersonal Attraction. In: Derlega, V.J., Winstead, B.A. (eds) Friendship and Social Interaction. Springer Series in Social Psychology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-4880-4_2
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