Sentences with phrase «pursuit of romantic partners»

Importantly, this latter finding — especially the positive association between age and using online personals ads to find marital partners — suggests that older adults are not only more involved in the pursuit of romantic partners via the Internet than younger adults, but more serious in their pursuits, as well.

Not exact matches

There has been a growing body of research on how romantic couple members help each other complete their goals (e.g., check out our posts here and here), but recently researchers set out to examine what happens to goal pursuit after breakup.1 To do this, researchers asked people about a goal that they were pursuing (e.g., getting good grades) and how well their romantic partner helped them towards attaining the goal (e.g., the extent to which their partner helped).

Despite the increased frequency of masturbation in relationships, there are some people who view their romantic partners» solo sexual pursuits negatively (e.g., they may see it as a sign that their partner is no longer sexually interested in them).

On the one hand, partners who were friends first may have had similar backgrounds and opportunities to develop many other types of similarities (e.g., leisure pursuits) even prior to forming a romantic relationship.