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| the process of meeting people socially for possible mate selection |
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| courtship seen as a process in which prospective spouses compare the assets and liabilities of eligible partners and choose the best available mate |
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| the theory that people in search of potential mates screen out eligible partners according to certain criteria to reduce the pool of eligibles to a small number of candidates |
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| dating or marrying someone with similar social characteristics such as ethnicity, race, religion, age, and social class |
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| dating or marrying someone from a social, racial, ethnic, religious, or age group different from one's own |
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| dating or marrying someone who is in a higher socioeconomic group than one's own |
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| dating or marrying someone who is in a lower socioeconomic group than one's own |
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| a theoretical perspective that proposes that an intimate relationship is satisfying and stable if both people see it as equitable and mutually beneficial |
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| the money, goods, or property a woman in traditional societies brings to a marriage |
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| unwanted, forced sexual intercourse, often in a social context such as a party; the rapist may be a neighbor, a friend of the family, a co-worker, or a person the victim has just met |
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| unwanted, forced sexual intercourse in the context of a dating situation |
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| the proportion of men to women in a country or group |
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| an imbalance in the number of available women and men |
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| a living arrangement in which two people who are not related and not married share living quarters and usually have a sexual relationship |
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| "persons of the opposite sex sharing living quarters," a US census household category |
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| co-residential dating cohabitation |
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| a living arrangement in which into which people "drift" gradually |
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| a living arrangement in which a couple tests its relationship before making a final commitment to get married |
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| people living together to find out what marriage might be like, with each other or someone else |
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| a long-term commitment between two people without a legal marriage |
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| the formalization of a couple's decision to marry and the last step in courtship |
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| conflict-habituated marriage |
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| a marriage in which the partners fight both verbally and physically but do not believe that fighting is a reason for divorce |
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| a marriage in which the partners are initially in love, spend time together, and have a satisfying sex life but in time find they are staying together out of duty. because they see no alternatives, they do not consider divorce. |
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| passive-congenial marriage |
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| a marriage in which partners with minimal emotional investment and expectations of their union maintain independent spheres of interests and activities and derive satisfaction from relationships with others rather than from each other |
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| a marriage in which partners maintain a close relationship, resolve conflicts quickly through compromise, and often make sacrifices for each other |
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| a marriage in which the partners participate in each other's lives at all levels and have few areas of tension or unresolved hostility |
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| a marriage based on convenience |
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| a marriage that is inherently rewarding |
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| married partners who continue to live together, may be good friends, and may be sexually intimate, but who, in many ways, have drifted apart |
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| the gradual deterioration of love and, ultimately, the loss of an emotional attachment between marital partners |
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| the specific ways in which married couples define their behavior and structure their time |
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| a stage in the evolution of a marriage in which partners readjust their idealized expectations to the realities of their life together |
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| young adults who move back into their parents' homes after living independently for a while |
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| open communication in which one person offers his or her honest thoughts and feelings to another person in the hope that truly open communication will follow |
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| the ability to impose one's will on others |
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