Sorry hun, I was just "born that way"

So let's say you've met some young honey in your office and you decide to put your career, your marriage and your self respect all on the line to get a little play with a youngin'.

Well now you've got a built in excuse; you were just "born that way".

From Bloomberg news.....

Investigators have long known the gene that controls the hormone vasopressin is responsible for monogamy in prairie voles, small animals common in the grasslands of North America. Now researchers from the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm have uncovered it in men -- and showed it may play a role in whether they and their spouses are happily married.

The researchers ran genetic tests on 2,186 participants in the Twin and Offspring Study in Sweden and had them fill out a survey about the quality of their marriage. Men with a genetic variation scored significantly lower on a scale of partner bonding. One in three reported a crisis in their marriage within the past year, twice the number as those without the variation.

Of course, when I fired this by Mrs. Gekko, I got the "Honey, if you find your clothes out in the street. Don't worry. 'I was just born that way'" response.

Maybe we can rename this gene Marc Dannimal syndrome.