The protestant reformation began as a criticism of the Catholic Church's decadence and views of purgatory as well as many details in scripture. As people began to gain more interest in objects from Biblical history, explorations would become opportunities to discover lost artifacts, points to convert nonbelievers and to feed the thirst for knowledge.
According to the chart of phases of marital satisfaction in the text, the point in the marriage is the level of satisfaction at its peak is when the couple is retired.
Building a successful marriage is a challenge. Satisfaction appears to be a correspondence between the expected and the actual of a relationship according to Burgess and Locke.
Objective
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