Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site unc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!mcnc!unc!fsks From: fsks@unc.UUCP (Frank Silbermann) Newsgroups: net.singles Subject: Re: More women than men Message-ID: <604@unc.UUCP> Date: Mon, 15-Jul-85 23:50:04 EDT Article-I.D.: unc.604 Posted: Mon Jul 15 23:50:04 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 17-Jul-85 20:53:40 EDT References:<589@unc.UUCP> Reply-To: fsks@unc.UUCP (Frank Silbermann) Organization: CS Dept., U. of N. Carolina at Chapel Hill Lines: 28 Summary: Frank Silbermann: >> 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. 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. In article jeand@ihlpg.UUCP (AMBAR) writes: >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. That's exactly what I mean. You both may agree not to date others. However, this will not stop other men from *asking* you out. Even without dating anybody else, you can get a good idea of who else you could have if your current relationship ended, just by noticing which men you turn down. On the other hand, your boyfriend cannot be _sure_ who else is interested unless _he_ asks out other women. But he cannot do this, since the other women might say yes! What would he do then? Tell them he was only testing them? Frank Silbermann