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6. Deni Kirkova, “You’re Breaking Up with Me by TEXT?” Daily Mail, March 5, 2014.

 

7. Ilana Gershon, The Breakup 2.0: Disconnecting over New Media (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2011).

 

8. Rossalyn Warren, “A Girl Is Getting over Her Ex by Photoshopping Photos of Beyoncé Over His Face,” BuzzFeed, July 29, 2014.

 

9. Irene Tsapelas, Helen Fisher, and Arthur Aron, “Infidelity: When, Where, Why,” in William R. Cupach and Brian H. Spitzberg, The Dark Side of Close Relationships II (New York: Routledge, 2010), pp. 175–96.

 

10. Richard Wike, “French More Accepting of Infidelity Than People in Other Countries,” Pew Research Center, January 14, 2014.

 

11. Frank Newport and Igor Himelfarb, “In U.S., Record-High Say Gay, Lesbian Relations Morally OK,” Gallup.com, May 20, 2013.

 

12. Henry Samuel, “French Study Shows a Majority of Men and a Third of Women Cheat,” Telegraph, January 21, 2014.

 

 

Chapter 7: Settling Down

 

1. Helen Fisher, “How to Make Romance Last,” O, the Oprah Magazine, December 2009.

 

2. Philip N. Cohen, “Marriage Is Declining Globally: Can You Say That?” Family Inequality (blog), June 12, 2013.

 

3. Christina Sterbenz, “Marriage Rates Are Near Their Lowest Levels in History—Here’s Why,” Business Insider, May 7, 2014.

 

4. Andrew J. Cherlin, “In the Season of Marriage, a Question: Why Bother?” New York Times, April 27, 2013.

 

5. Mark Oppenheimer, “Marriage, with Infidelities,” New York Times, June 30, 2011.

 

6. Mimi Valdes, “Do Open Relationships Work?” Men’s Fitness, October 2007.

 

 

 

 

 

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DAVIS, LAURIE. Love at First Click: The Ultimate Guide to Online Dating. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2013.

 

DRUCKERMAN, PAMELA. Lust in Translation: The Rules of Infidelity from Tokyo to Tennessee. New York: Penguin Press, 2007.

 

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