I think it was last Thrusday in my daily review of the news that I read in USA Today the results of a survey whereby a farily large majority of younger women (like somewhere around 72%) indicated that they would prefer to maintain an independent part of themselves apart from their partner. This ranged from comments about insisting on a once a week 'girls' night out to maintaining whatever relationships they wanted to. The report indicated that the percentage of men (as I recall 58%) who wanted the same thing was lower than women for the first time. (Not sure what other studies this compared to). The gist I got from the synopsis is that the survey sample was mostly of young professional men and women, and not necessarily married yet. I don't remember who conducted the survey, or if it was even a university-conducted survey. So of course this could have been pretty severely paraphrased for controversial purposes as USA Today sometimes does.

The thing is that, as the supposed conclusion implied, that there is and has been a cultural/gender shift in the attidudes of women and men over the last several years to the extent that the expectations of romantic relationships are threatened by change.

If anyone else has seen this, and has more specifics I would be happpy in learning about them.

Tom

Tom, the Harleys discussed an article from the USA Today on their show this week and I wonder if this is it? http://www.oneplace.com/ministries/...tant-to-work-on-the-marriage-162237.html

If its not, can you email Mrs Harley and ask them to review and discuss it on their show?? http://www.marriagebuilders.com/mb2.cfm?recno=12

Hi Melody and thanks. Couldn't tell from the link you posted if it referenced that article, but I did trace it down. It is entitled "men, women flip the gender script expectation". But, it was conducted by Match.com....*s*, and it was of singles, so not sure how reliable it is. It was a little misleading because it was sprinkled with quotes by university professor types commenting on the results. It you just scan it once as I did it can lead you to believe that it as a university sponsored study.

Tom