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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Anna Karenina Principle:

Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

In other words: in order to be happy, a family must be successful on each and every one of a range of criteria e.g: sexual attraction, money issues, parenting, religion, in-laws. Failure on only one of these counts leads to unhappiness. Thus there are more ways for a family to be unhappy than happy.[/quote]

I don't think that is what it means at all. For example, the "happy family" in Anna Karenina consisted of a woman who was originally deeply broken hearted by another man and then went on to marry a man she was never really crazy for, but the love grew because she put her faith in the relationship and gave it a chance.

I think Tolstoy's point/belief is that happy families organize themselves into a predictable structure (monogamous, family oriented, etc.) and that deviation from that causes problems, not that you can't have any issues in your marriage or else you will be doomed to failure... [/quote]

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