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Women are devastated by failing relationships, says Nando Pelusi, Ph.D., while men flail more over unattainable relationships.

Nando Pelusi Ph.D.

After a one-year relationship with a difficult boyfriend, my client had to face the facts: “I’ve spent so much time and energy on this guy, I just can’t believe it’s not going to work.” Amid her tears she also realized that she didn’t even like the guy, who had kept her at arm’s length and endlessly proclaimed his inability to commit. She was gripped by what she always feels when she realizes a relationship is troubled—a grim determination to make it work no matter what.

The next client to enter my office wasn’t crying, but he was grief-stricken about a relationship that just didn’t get off the ground. He couldn’t understand why a woman he pursued with elaborate overtures (and cold hard cash) never really responded. He ruminated for hours about why nothing worked.
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In her study, “Women In Pre-Islamic Arabia”, the outspoken rights advocate argues women in the pre-Islamic period enjoyed considerable rights in the Nabataean state, an urban Arabian kingdom centered in modern Jordan, south Syria and northwest Saudi Arabia during the Roman empire. Most controversially, Fassi says women in Nabataea — whose capital was the famous rose-red city of Petra in south Jordan and which was at its height during the lifetime of Jesus Christ — enjoyed more freedom than in Saudi Arabia today because clerics have misunderstood the origins of Islamic law. She also suggests some Saudi restrictions on women may have their origins in Greco-Roman traditions.
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In fact, the more beautiful a woman is, the higher her standards. But, perhaps surprisingly, the study did not find that to be the case when it comes to men. It takes more than being a hunk for a man to want everything. He must also have status and the potential to be a good provider before he is likely to demand the best. On the surface it sounds like just another study showing that men are different from women, as if we didn’t already know that. But this is a serious effort to delve into an area that has been largely ignored by scientists: How a woman’s own attractiveness influences her preferences when she picks a mate.
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In nearly 1,000 counties that together are home to about 12 percent of the nation’s women, life expectancy is now shorter than it was in the early 1980s, according to a study published today. The downward trend is evident in places in the Deep South, Appalachia, the lower Midwest and in one county in Maine. It is not limited to one race or ethnicity but it is more common in rural and low-income areas. The most dramatic change occurred in two areas in southwestern Virginia (Radford City and Pulaski County), where women’s life expectancy has decreased by more than five years since 1983.
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