Houston and His Colleagues in Their PAIR Project Have Been

Houston and his colleagues in their PAIR project have been studying 168 couples that were married in 1981. Their research supports a disillusionment model of divorce because they found that couples who were at the highest risk of divorce

A) had the highest need for emotional fulfillment.
B) began their marriages deeply in love, but confronted the most conflicts over finances, in-laws, and careers
C) began their marriages at the highest levels of romance, but had the steepest declines in marital satisfaction and romantic feelings.
D) believed that that passion and romance were the exclusive basis for a successful marriage and therefore a decline in these feelings signified a failing marriage.