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Show Your Marriage Survey Indicates Wives First To Lose Physical Interest husband cooled off toon after his wife'a hair turned gray. The reasons wives gave for their, diminishing Interest were Just as varied. Six women complained of their husband's disagreeable temperament. tem-perament. Three wives stated their matea required too much intimacy for their tastes. Mess Poor Lovers , Several women insisted their husbands were poor lovers, while some wives apparently lost interest because of their husbands' lack of desire, or because the men were not affectionate. Incompatibility was another reason advanced. One wife complained that her husband had "no concept of her soul." another that he had an "un-poetic "un-poetic soul." A third wife didn't find her mate masculine enough, while a fourth lost Interest when her husband began showing inter est In other women. Finally, some wives traced their unresponsiveness to their husband's hus-band's alcoholism and lack of cleanliness. By Samuel and Esther Kllng Q. Do husbands or wives tire eooner of the physical side of marriage? A. Usually we think of the husband's hus-band's desire waning before the wife'a But a study made by Dr. G. V. Hamilton in "A Research in Marriage," seems to explode this myth. When one hundred men were asked If their wives ' were still sexually attractive, eighty said I "yes." Six declared their matea I had become even more alluring) Tet onl M of the hundred women queried found their hus-! hus-! bands appealing! What accounts for this loss of j Interest? Dr. Hamilton's research I reveals some interesting reasons. Monotonous The largest number of men said It waa their craving for variety that made them lose interest in their matea: they aimply found marriage too monotonous. The second largest number traced their lack of Interest to their wives unresponsiveness,. In, some cases, apparently, wives had a distaste or aversion to this side of married life, and couldn't ad-Just ad-Just properly. Soma husbands complained their wives had become too fat while one husband said his wife wasn't fat enough! Individuals reason ran the gamut gam-ut from the simple explanation that the husband just didn't love his wife any more" to the more specific reason that his wife had become "physically flabby." One husband explained his loss of desire de-sire by ssying his wife was mentally men-tally immature. Neurotic Mate Another thought the explanation explana-tion lay In the fact that hia mats was neurotic. A third tracrd his waning Interest to "her vulgarity In love!" A fourth complained she was always too tired, and another |