"THE FEMINIZATION OF LOVE": Why do I keep quoting Camassia? Because she's just that cool.
...Another point that might be relevant here is another theory I learned about in my Family Sociology class, about the "feminization of love." A couple of researchers who studied married couples noticed that men and women tended to have somewhat different ideas about how to show your love for someone: men lean toward "instrumental help" (doing things for people, in other words), while women tend toward "verbal self-disclosure" (talking about intimate matters). The authors argued that society in general thinks of love more in the "female" terms of emotive intimacy, which means women are regarded as being better at love, which has negative consequences for both sexes.
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