Looking at the short-term effects of inequality in relationships, it doesn't seem to do much harm as it often increases sexual desire.

However, unequal relationships will soon be laced with contempt, leading to divorce and extramarital affairs for both partners.

Differences in romantic relationships are inevitable. Any person involved in a relationship has experienced envy in one way or another, may it be for a short amount of time or chronically.

Envy is the experience of feeling undeservedly inferior and this feeling is particularly damaging...

Profound love involves kindness, generosity, and sympathetic joy for the beloved's success.

We will go through changes throughout our lives and if we see our partners as "above" or "beneath" us it will eventually become problematic because this places an unnecessary comparison in the relat...