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Nearly half of older teenagers and young adults break up and get back together with previous dating partners and over half of this group have sex as part of the reconciliation process, a new study has found
It was found that approximately 44 percent of emerging adults who had been in a romantic relationship in the past two years had experienced at least one reconciliation with an ex romantic partner and 53 percent of those who reported reconciliations also reported having sex with their ex.
Additionally, racial minorities in particular were even more likely to experience reconciliation or sexual relationships with previous romantic partners.
The researchers discussed the implications of reconciliations with previous romantic partners: “Emerging adults who reconcile may be prone to a behavior pattern that involves cycling through relationship formation… Furthermore, having sex with an ex may be problematic because former partners can have difficulty moving on from an old relationship or building new romantic attachments.”
This study was recently published in the Journal of Adolescent Research, a SAGE journal.
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