Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84 exptools; site ihlpg.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxn!ihnp4!ihlpg!jeand From: jeand@ihlpg.UUCP (AMBAR) Newsgroups: net.singles Subject: Re: More women than men Message-ID: <852@ihlpg.UUCP> Date: Sat, 13-Jul-85 22:14:00 EDT Article-I.D.: ihlpg.852 Posted: Sat Jul 13 22:14:00 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 14-Jul-85 09:27:13 EDT References:<589@unc.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 23 > If it is true that women sever the relationship more often than men, > it is because of the traditionally passive role women play in courting. > Men make the offers, and women accept or reject them. > A woman may > continue to receive and reject new offers while she is committed to > an exclusive relationship. Sez who? I won't. Well, let me elaborate. If I and my SO agree that we can both date others, then we do. If we agree that we won't, we don't. What's sauce for the gander, etc. > The man in an exclusive relationship, > on the other hand, may not extend offers to other women without risk > of destroying the relationship he has. > Frank Silbermann -- AMBAR {the known universe}!ihnp4!ihlpg!jeand "To those who love it is given to hear Music too high for the human ear." --Bruce Cockburn