There are ore beliefs in Buddhism that they practices, the four Noble truths, the noble eightfold path and five precepts. Regrets and suffering is present and it is experience universally and the cause is of this is attachment and desire.
Marialle's expectation demonstrate a belief in <u><em>"CONTINUITY"</em></u>
Marialle shouldn't expect Dominic to be the same because according to the continuity idea, people experience a developmental change as they grow up and become more aware of certain things in life.
Continuity related to development involves quantitative or qualitative changes. Quantitative changes are for example the hight of someone in adolescence and qualitative changes are for example the more mature thoughts someone has when they are adult... different from the ones that person had as a child or adolescence.
It was 'fed' by the whole Mississippi river system- everything had to go down river, from Pittsburgh to the Lousianna territory.
