Long-term agreement versus later desired change

You must make this choice yourself. You and your partner agree to a long-term arrangement that materially shapes both of your lives. Years later, one of you wants to change it while the other wants the original agreement preserved.

• 48% chose: Give greater weight to the stability of the original commitment. (15 people)
• 52% chose: Give greater weight to the current desire to change the arrangement. (16 people)

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