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WHAT Do You Know ABOUT LOVE?
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More Than A Conquest

ing" ne points out fought not to be conquest, but
mutual search by two people TO discover together what
they have in common. And it doesn't serve either
parys interest to try to sweep girl of her feet at
time when it's most important that she have her feet
SOIidly planted on the ground.
q. Is 10 that the more couple have IN common
personality wise, the better their chaRces for love?
a. Professor Chrstensens studies show that it be
dangerous for couple to be too similar in character
and temperament. The course Of love runs SmootheSt
when they have opposite faults. similar virtues. or
example, if both are ideaiSc, that's fine; but If both
are stubborn or hot-headed, that's bad)
q. Is Rse that sOHfkerR gals have the iaside track
over their RoEfkeTH sisters?
a. Studies conducted by psychiatriSt J. A. Morris
Kimber show that southern women have decided edge
on northern women in matrimonial chances; and that
northern men frequently marry southern women, but
few southern men marry northern women. In another
study made by Florida State University psychologists,
personality tests given to more than 500 goods
from both north and south. The results showed the
southern bellies to be far romantcally feminine
in their attitudes.
q. Does love mean diGereHf thing to woman fhGS
n does a mas?
a Studies of psychologists and socioogists have
probed this question from every angle Consensus OF
their findings backs up what Byron said over 100 years
ago: MANS love is Of mans life thing apart; It's
wonlanS whole existence" The more couple can
understand this Fundamental difference between the
sexes the happier their whole relationship is likely
he.
q. Is IL Evue fhaf the better adjusted girl is the
sooner she's likely to fell in love and marry?
a. No. It's likely to be the other way around. SocOl
oey Professor Floyd M. Martnson studied Cross
section of young women in their earlyto-midde Dos,
found that those who had yet married averaged the
best personality The single girls showed better
emotional adjustment greater self-cOnfdence, and
better developed of security. They also averaged
better physical health Professor MartnSon con-
cudeS that il is the immature not-Sowell adjusted
person who is the most anxious to get married.
a. Whaf your zone and OmIy love" fHEhS yOW dOwH?
a. Your chances for love and happiness are just
good as they were you will only realize the fact
As DR.. Claude c. Bowman, Temple University sociolo-
gist points out the lone and only love- is myth, and
studies have completely exploded the illusion that there
is a single soul mate" to whom one is attracted by
cosmc affinity. you Tilted, get back in circulation
q. WhGf Is this thing called love?
a Perhaps the best answer to this question has been
provided by Harvard University socologiSt Carrie c.
Zimmerman andsThe Rev. LuciuS F. CerVantes direc-
tor of the Sociology Department Of Regis College,
Denver in their recent textbook, Marriage and the
Family" which up the findings of a monumental
study They define Love the HsOSf complete response
of which a hGRsaH being Is capable. Reaching Us
FML6Husem in total community Of life between one man