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From: jer@peora.UUCP (J. Eric Roskos)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: More women do it than men
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Date: Sat, 29-Jun-85 23:31:10 EDT
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[Uh-oh.  Now it's "amateur psychologist".  Well, anyway...]

> I have read and heard one theory that women are more adept at recognizing
> a relationship is over than men.  They therefore terminate it rather
> than let it drag on.

Why might that be, though?  I mean, in general if you state, "men are more
adept at X than women," you will immediately get attacked for the statement.
Well, I will sort of do that too, in this case... why would women be "more
adept" at this than men?

Actually I agree with one of the earlier posters, myself.  I think probably
it is because of the fact that, in our society, it is the men who
traditionally go and initiate relationships; thus, during the time that they
consider themselves in some sense "attached", they do not actively go
initiating potential new relationships.  On the other hand, women would
tend to be exposed always to such attempts on the part of other men, who
do not perceive them as being so attached; and some of these may be suffic-
iently persistent as to generate some interest.  But this in itself would,
I guess, lead to the sort of thing you mentioned; you are most likely to
perceive the shortcomings in an existing relationship when you are
periodically being presented with opportunities for new, "better" ones.

[I say this from firsthand observation, though not of a statstically valid
sample.]
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