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David Wyman's avatar

That statistic about 87% of men and 75% of women at least testing out some mate poaching seems impossibly high. I haven't read the book and I don't know the context, but even over a lifetime there have got to be more exceptions than that. Maybe there is something tricky with definitions going on.

I doubt that I am naive. I was a psychiatric social worker for forty years and know the dark undersides of many respectable families. Even in my family of origin there were a couple of examples of hypergamy. The number is just too high.

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It’s Just Me Dad's avatar

“Make the romantic choices you want to make. But expecting other people to also celebrate you for them is absurd.”

I agree! Don’t we all? Then I say why does society have Pride month?

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