Does First Love Kill Your Future Relationships?

I was reading Shauna Goya's Odds and Ends blog today and she posted an interesting blog. A British study apparently determined that your first relationship determines how you go into future relationships. If it was a really intense relationship, then you're more likely to use it as a benchmark for success and failure of other relationships so it can screw you really good. If it's just so-so, you don't look to it as being the holy grail and can proceed through other relationships with more of a level head.

I wonder if this is true or not? I would tend to agree with the study as your first love is your initial impression of what it is or isn't like, right? How can you not use it as a benchmark? Does this mean that people who hang on to those past relationships shouldn't be considered pathetic anymore? They're just very in tune with what they want/don't want. It's almost like their scientific about it.

But does hanging on to the past really hinder future relationships? I think it would only because if you're so focused on the past, then you definitely can't give 100 percent to the current relationship. You can't be half in, half out of a relationship and have it turn out okay. Interesting.