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Singles going steady
To avoid marrying a jerk, singles educators say you should stay out of bed on the first date and cross-examine your partner. Critics say their advice is hokum.
By Sarah Elizabeth Richards [2006-03-07]

  • Self-Perpetuating Theories

    It amazes me how these theories of love self-perpetuate without research, based on "wisdom" that has been handed down because it sounds good.

    This is little more than the hoo-doo of a bad flim-flam artist.

    I'd have no problems if, anywhere in the literature of love, there were references to studies, to actual work done that proves empirically what the speaker proclaims to be truth. Until then, I'll stick with what I do know about biology - and I'm 15 years into a really good marriage.

    I won't even BEGIN to discuss the assertation that only Middle-class folks are stable and have good marriages. Apparently Social Darwinism is still alive and well: the lower classes and working classes OBVIOUSLY have no stable marriages or complex emotions,and the Middle and Upper classes OBVIOUSLY have no abuse or alcoholism.

    -- SnarlingCoyote
    Tuesday, March 7, 2006 03:49 AM
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