"A new study by a professor at Brigham Young University says that being actively religious could help those millions of marriage partners stay faithful.
The conclusions are drawn from in-depth interviews with 57 married, heterosexual couples in New England and California. Each couple claimed to be highly religious and represented several different faiths, including Christianity, Islam and Judaism. When asked how religion affected their marriages, the couples mentioned fidelity.
[Study director David] Dollahite found that highly religious couples viewed their marriages as sacred and more important than a simple human connection.
'They just feel that their marriage has a sacred quality to it that they certainly didn't want to disrupt by being unfaithful,' Dollahite said."
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