Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83 based; site homxa.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!homxa!carson From: carson@homxa.UUCP (P.CARSTENSEN) Newsgroups: net.singles Subject: Re: More women do it than men Message-ID: <996@homxa.UUCP> Date: Thu, 11-Jul-85 00:00:00 EDT Article-I.D.: homxa.996 Posted: Thu Jul 11 00:00:00 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 11-Jul-85 06:45:57 EDT References: <210@cuuxa.UUCP><462@unc.UUCP>, <1105@peora.UUCP> <956@hou2h.UUCP> <1196@peora.UUCP>, Re: More women do it than men Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel NJ Lines: 15 If women do break off relations more often than men (Someone once said he felt there is a time-dependence in that women break off long- term relationships more often, but men cut off short-term ones...), there may be a power-distribution-related desperation to it, along the lines of "I've tried saying nicely why I'm unhappy with you, and you do change for a week or so, but sooner or later we are back to the behavior that is driving me crazy..." Maybe men, having gotten past some fix-it-rather-than-break-it threshold, have more (blind?) faith in making things work... Patty -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To most people a savage nation is wan that doesn't wear oncomf'rtable clothes...Finley Peter Dunne (aka Mr. Dooley) ----------------------------------------------------------------------