Everyone has had that person in their life who is a good friend and is only getting better. Everything is going great until this person finds a boyfriend or girlfriend. Almost everything is downhill from there. No matter how much someone likes their boyfriend or girlfriend, there is always a need for community elsewhere too. There are some needs that generally cannot be adequately met by one person alone, even if that person is a significant other before marriage. As a matter of fact, there is a lot of loss to suffer when one's priorities become distorted. The effects of this are certainly cause for attention. When a person devotes all of their available time to a single relationship before marriage, other important aspects of this individual's life tend to crumble due to lack of maintenance; existing relationships tend to decay, other responsibilities are neglected, and inappropriate intimacy may grow. The first major effect of not limiting the time you spend with your premarital significant other is the fact that the relationships the individual currently has can break up very easily. below. Like anything, all relationships take work and maintenance. Interestingly, this is also true in the scientific field; the Second Law of Thermodynamics is defined as: “In terms of entropy, the second law states that the total entropy of a closed system cannot decrease” (The Penguin Dictionary of Science, 2009). It's fascinating how much of life fits together like pieces of a puzzle; if something is true in one part of reality, it is often true in another. So, considering the Second Law, think that a person has twelve hours in a day and five of those hours are free each day. The person spends every single...... middle of paper......unmanaged and appropriate, so relationships you already have can decay more easily, other responsibilities are neglected, and inappropriate intimacy can grow. Works Cited Fibbs, B. (2009, June 11) 'Imagine that': finally a good Eddie Murphy film. Gazette, The (Colorado Springs, CO). Hodge, E. (1999). If you've gone too far... Campus Life, 57(8), 37. Reconcile. (2011). The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language. Retrieved March 15, 2014, from http://search.credoreference.com.library.gcu.edu:2048/content/entry/hmdictenglang/reconcile/0?searchId=879a5f26-acd1-11e3-920d-0aea1e24c1ac&result=0Thermodynamics. (2009). The scientific dictionary of penguins. Retrieved March 15, 2014, from http://search.credoreference.com.library.gcu.edu:2048/content/entry/penguinscience/thermodynamics/0?searchId=c79074bc-ace8-11e3-bd9c-12c1d36507ee&result=1