Emotional inteligence

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PART THREEEMOTIONALINTELLIGENCE APPLIED

9Intimate EnemiesTo love and to work, Sigmund Freud once remarked tohis disciple Erik Erikson, are the twin capacities thatmark full maturity. If that is the case, then maturity maybe an endangered way station in life—and currenttrends in marriage and divorce make emotional intelligencemore crucial than ever.Consider divorce rates. The rate per year of divorceshas more or less leveled off. But there is another way ofcalculating divorce rates, one that suggests a perilousclimb: looking at the odds that a given newly marriedcouple will have their marriage eventually end in divorce.Although the overall rate of divorce has stoppedclimbing, the risk of divorce has been shifting tonewlyweds.The shift gets clearer in comparing divorce rates forcouples wed in a given year. For American marriagesthat began in 1890, about 10 percent ended in divorce.For those wed in 1920, the rate was about 18 percent;for couples married in 1950, 30 percent. Couples thatwere newly wed in 1970 had a fifty-fifty chance of splittingup or staying together. And for married couplesstarting out in 1990, the likelihood that the marriagewould end in divorce was projected to be close to a

PART THREE

EMOTIONAL

INTELLIGENCE APPLIED

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