Sentences with phrase «heterosexual relationships do»

The councilman drew fire for taking campaign contributions from hedge fund head Sean Fieler, who had attacked what he called «the myth» that «gay relationships lend themselves to monogamy, stability, health and parenting in the same way heterosexual relationships do.»

Not exact matches

However, I do know that in America there is a kind of religious or cultural feeling against anal sex even in heterosexual relationships.

I don't believe the act itself is a sin if in a loving and committed relationship; same as heterosexuals.

In this period of history, when militant homosexuals not only reveal their liaisons and lifestyles but actively and articulately promote the homosexual relationship as a morally acceptable alternative to marriage, legislation that would require the military to accept homosexuals would do much more to violate the rights of heterosexual military personnel than it would to promote the rights of homosexuals.

Gay persons desire and need deep and lasting relationships, just as do heterosexual persons, and appropriate genital expression should be denied to neither.

If you factor in the ending of gay and lesbian relationships (since such couples can't be legally married, they can't be legally divorced and thus don't get counted in these statistics), as well as committed but unmarried heterosexual couples, the numbers grow... more

«We don't feel there is either a necessity or a requirement to open up civil partnerships to heterosexuals because there is no deficit there — there is no lack of an ability to be able to formalise a relationship in a legal way,» she said then.

As I said in the Times and will say again here, I do, however, believe that most members of our community — as well as the majority of heterosexuals — can not and do not choose the gender of the persons with whom they seek to have intimate relationships because, unlike me, they are only attracted to one sex.

This is the first time that I know of were eHarmony has said they are going to spend some research money to see if gay relationships actually do differ from heterosexual relationships.

In fact, it doesn't matter what kind of relationship you are and whether it is heterosexual or lesbian dating, you will discover that there are three types of intimacy that matter for your relationship.

The study examined a variety of different household tasks — including shopping, laundry, and housecleaning, and found that, for women in heterosexual relationships, it's more important to share the responsibility of doing the dishes than any other chore.

The study did show that the woman in married heterosexual relationships were the most likely of all the women to do financial planning.

Not only do you have to prove that your ex is living with someone else, but you must also prove that they are engaged in a private, heterosexual relationship.

From the men I've talked to in heterosexual relationships, they are not intentionally trying to be rude, they just don't understand why housework is such a big deal to their partner.

That said, even among couples that do split the workload, chores tend to fall to one partner more than the other (in heterosexual relationships, usually the woman).

In response to the WSJ article, Tracy Clark - Flory wrote an insightful piece for Salon where she examined the scenario wherein the woman in a heterosexual relationship has higher desire than does her male partner.

It doesn't really matter if it's the man or the woman (assuming heterosexual relationships) who is «into» the other — unrequited love never turns out well.

Men often take a more active role than do women in initiating heterosexual relationships, and this difference may reflect a broader difference in how much control men and women feel they generally have in life.

What Science Says: If the card company assumed heterosexual partners, research supports the message that men are less likely to incorporate feelings into their concepts of love and describe love much more simply than women.4 Importantly, receiving an apology does not necessarily increase relationship satisfaction (more on apologies here).5 Rather, the key factor in promoting greater relationship satisfaction is whether the person making the apology takes responsibility.

We have concluded that children need at least one responsible, caretaking adult who has a positive emotional connection to them and with whom they have a consistent relationship... we do not believe that the data support the conclusion that fathers are essential to child well - being... [or] that heterosexual marriage is the social context in which responsible fathering is most likely to occur.»

The stereotype that men do not communicate as much about their feelings is something supported in the research, and is something I have seen men in heterosexual and homosexual relationships.

The stereotype that men do not communicate as much about their feelings is something supported by research, and is something I have seen from men in heterosexual and homosexual relationships.

Same - sex couples face all of the same challenges in their relationship as heterosexual couples do,

If you factor in the ending of gay and lesbian relationships (since such couples can't be legally married, they can't be legally divorced and thus don't get counted in these statistics), as well as committed but unmarried heterosexual couples, the numbers grow... more

The goals of this investigation were to examine: (1) relationship members» perceptions of the balance of work at both the initiation and the maintenance stages of their relationship; (2) whether one gender in heterosexual, romantic relationships is perceived as doing more of the work of relationship initiation and relationship maintenance; and (3) relational outcomes (e.g, satisfaction) associated with the perceptions of balance versus imbalance in the work of relationship initiation and maintenance.

When we retraced the history of a sample of heterosexual couples back to the beginning of their relationship, by asking who had done the work of relationship initiation, we found that partners were more likely to say that one partner had worked harder than the other than to say that the partners had mutually shared the work.

Heterosexual couples that split childcare duties have higher quality relationships and sex lives than those who don't, according to new...