In interpersonal relationships a fatal attraction is when the very qualities that draw one to someone eventually contribute to relational breakup.
[3] When she wrote her major work on fatal attraction she was a professor at the University of California, Davis.
In her landmark research on fatal attraction Felmlee analyzed the data from a random sample on initial attraction and the subsequent data from a self-report study of the sample respondents' about the characteristics they dislike about their partner.
Felmelee then summarized her results in terms of pertinence to interpersonal theories and dialectical perspectives.
One conclusion resulting from Felmlee's research was that differences were the most common type of fatal attraction.