Are You Ready to Commit?

In the past, women were the gender most likely to ask me how to get their male partners to commit to a long-term relationship. My male patients more often asked for advice as to how they could better "score" with a desired woman and rarely asked me how or when they should commit to a long-term involvement. Their early dating experiences took an easy second place to their career development. Until maturity, career status, and peer pressure coalesced, they were often reluctant to give up the freedom that single status provided. A perfect example was glorified in the musical production, "My Fair Lady,' where Eliza's drunken father, on the night before his reluctant wedding, sings, "Get me to the Church on Time." As women have begun coming into their own, they have options for sexual and financial freedom they've never enjoyed before. With those new choices, many are becoming more like their male counterparts, weighing whether it's to their benefit to commit to one partner forever, and certainly not until they have finished exploring all possibilities. Even when their veritable time clock is closer, they aren't panicking the way they once may have. Having options that they have never had before, they can put that concern off well into their thirties, giving them more time to develop careers, to date multiple men, and to observe how and why relationships succeed or fail. In addition, many men and women now must wonder if the people they are dating are really who they say they ...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news