Two examples of these «deal breakers» could be strong differences in religious beliefs, or gender role expectations — that is, where one person wants a traditional husband and
wife relationship whereas the other person wants a progressive, egalitarian relationship.
An extramarital
relationship perfectly avoids the threat of intimacy in a sexual
relationship,
whereas the narcissist actually craves and longs for the intimacy that was lacking in his insecure early attachment to his parent, and may very well be lacking in his current
relationship with his
wife.
In the United States, the interaction between
relationship type and participant sex was significant, Wilks» Lambda =.77, F (2, 42) = 6.12, p =.005, partial eta squared =.23, such that women expected men to have more communal strength to their
wives than to their mothers, t (26) = 6.36, p =.000,
whereas men did not expect women to have more communal strength to their husbands than to their mothers, t (17) = -.29, p =.76.