Relationships

Recently I've been discussing football with several other Oakland Raider fans and I've had a hard time understanding why some people can't see the relationship between the disorganized nature of the team and its horrid record with the reality that they have to overpay for talent. I really don't understand how people can't see the relationship that exists. This of course leads me into the topic of women.

I was recently perusing the October 2007 issue of Cosmo magazine (please don't ask why) when I came across this section called Totally Cosmo on pp. 178 - 182. Its a series of results from a "major survey' conducted by the magazine in order to gain a better insight into today's modern woman. Here are some things that stuck out to me.

59% say women wear the pants in most relationships
92% say women are more in charge of relationships now than in their parents day
76% say it's harder to have a good relationship today than it was in their parents' generation
82% think that their generation will have a higher divorce rate

Does anyone see a relationship between these statistics? So if women are more in control of relationships today than their mothers were, and it's now harder to have a good relationship than for their mother, do they think that there is some sort of causal link between these two facts?

I'm no sociologist, psychologist, therapist or any other such -ist but I think that these statistics should make someone ponder what is really happening. Is there a correlation between the level of female dominance in a relationship and the rate of relationship survival?

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41% think it's fine to have one night stands occasionally
37% don't always practice safe sex

That works well with the recently released study conducted by the Center for Disease Control which found that 26% of American females between the ages of 14 and 19 have an STD.

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75% would not be bothered if they had slept with more people than their mate had
27% have lied to a guy about the number of people with whom they've slept

No it doesn't bother the woman to know that they have slept with more people but they know that it bothers the man so they lie. Makes sense considering that men, if they are serious about a relationship, don't necessarily want a woman that may be deemed to have been promiscuous in their past.

To use a crude analogy, it's like going shopping. If you in Wal-mart and your looking for something, you ask the person in the Wal-mart uniform, not the person in the security uniform or the person in the Burger King uniform. People put on uniforms through their behavior. If you want to party you find the bar-star or club-rat. If you want to have sex, you find the promiscuous woman. If you want a wife and mother to your children you find the person who acts accordingly.