Chapter 8 Friendships and romance

Question 1

Women and friendship

Answer 1

Sharing emotions, experiences, events, they talk a lot, and emotional experience has to be recripircate (we list to each other)

Question 2

Men and friendship

Answer 2

Share closeness through activities like playing games, sports, watching football, they don’t turn to each other for emotional support

Question 3

Elder years of friendship

Answer 3

Becomes more emotional support and sources of real support like drivin and because most women will have lost their husband so they need strong social support

Question 4

Romance and women

Answer 4

Value physical attraction and their assets if the man is able to provide finically for them and they spend s lot of time and money to make them look attractive for adage

Question 5

Romance and men

Answer 5

Put more of an emphasis on physical appearance

Question 6

Middle age

Answer 6

Estrogen keeps your skin from absorbing the water being plump, gray hair, a lot of physical change

Question 7

Dating research

Answer 7

The idea that if a men or women ask they out it means that they are sexually attracted to them - man more likely to believe she is showing some sexual interest towards them when it’s nothing related

Question 8

Marriage

Answer 8

Most adults marry, marriage rated are lower than the are, we are marrying older,

Question 9

Why are we getting marry later?

Answer 9

We are more mobile, women in college they want to start career first before marriage

Question 10

Gilbert and three types of marriage

Answer 10

Traditional, modern, elgaitsrian(equal partnership) - they are all at least one third of the population each

Question 11

Predications of successful marriage

Answer 11

More education, solid economic resources, later age at first marriage, no pre marital pregnancy, parents had a happy marriage, good conflict resolution skills, sexual satisfactions, positive behavior

Question 12

Lesbian relationships

Answer 12

Longer lasting relationships than gay relationships, have more egalitarian marriages

Question 13

Benefits of marriage

Answer 13

Few symptoms of psychological stress, more emotional support, healthier physically

Question 14

Satisfaction of marriage

Answer 14

Starts out high when you first get married and then it goes down for 20 years and it goes back up when the kids leave home

Question 15

Older age marriage

Answer 15

More men are married than women, and there are a lot more women of older age than man, and marriage during this time is good for finances, emotional health in old age

Question 16

Cohabitation

Answer 16

Living with significant other without getting married and they usually have a higher divorce rate

Question 17

Friendships before the 1970s

Answer 17

If a guy ask you out to a date you would cancel all your plans even with your friends to go out on a date with him