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From: greenber@timeinc.UUCP (Ross M. Greenberg)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: More women do it than men
Message-ID: <262@timeinc.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 22-Jun-85 15:16:20 EDT
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Posted: Sat Jun 22 15:16:20 1985
Date-Received: Tue, 25-Jun-85 03:08:23 EDT
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Reply-To: greenber@timeinc.UUCP (Ross M. Greenberg)
Organization: Time, Inc. - New York
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Summary: 

Regarding the reasons that women tend to sever the relationship more often
than men:

My feeling is that men don't have the experience of being the "rejector"
but rather the "rejectee".  Throughout our early years, men were the ones
that had to "do the asking".  They were the initiators, and were
generally quite glad to get to a point where they didn't have to lay it on the
line every friday so they would have a date on friday night.  So they
were more hesitant to end a not-so-perfect relationship than hit the
meat-racks again.

Women, on the other hand, had more men after them then they could possibly
handle: generally turning down more dates than they accepted.  So breaking
up from a not-so-perfect relationship did not mean that they were to
be lonely on friday night. And so breaking up was not such a big deal.

The situation hasn't changed much: men still do the majority of the
initial asking and still take the initial risk of being turned down.
Women still can get more dates than they can handle.  I'm talking
quantity here, not quality, so no flames, okay?

Finally, more women severing the ties could be related to the laziness
of some men: why go through the hassle of breaking up with someone
if you can get them to break up with you?

These are just my opinions, of course.  Your mileage may vary.

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Ross M. Greenberg  @ Time Inc, New York 
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