Keyword: «affection»

Marital and family relationships have various foundations; relationships based on love are their ideal, desirable kind. The requests of the modern individual regarding family and marriage are determined not only by a desire for emotional intimacy, but also (due to the erotic revolution of the twentieth century) a new - included in the love content - need for the erotic component of a romantic love feeling. Thus, a married couple faces new challenges that test reciprocity and the depth of a love feeling uniting them, in particular, a poorly studied character of unfaithfulness; love experience may include an event of unfaithfulness resulting from a lack of the evolutionary logic of love understanding, psychological "hygiene" of family relationships. The article is devoted to the examination of the feeling of love in marriage and family relations at the present stage of their existence, as well as some reasons leading to the disharmony of interpersonal relationships in marriage.