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Marriage, Family, and Other Concerns

Top Ten Signs Your Girlfriend is Going to Dump You...
10. Your visa card and your belt both hit their limit.
9. She's been wearing an engagement ring for three weeks, but you don't recall proposing to her.
8. She just started a college course that meets seven nights a week.
7. She says she has to tell you something... on Jerry Springer.
6. Her love letters come soaked in formaldehyde rather than perfume.
5. Whenever she introduces you it's always "I would like you to meet an old friend of mine..."
4. She leaves a message on your phone and identifies her-self by both her first and last names.
3. Your other girlfriend told you so.
2. The dartboard behind your photo on her wall.
1. Her girlfriends look at you, tilt their heads, and say, "You haven't got a clue, do you?"

"It's not good looks. It's not money. It's not a charming personality. It's not a powerful career. What women want most in a man is fidelity.
 
Fully 54 percent of women responding to a Leger Marketing-Canadian Press poll cited "a faithful partner" when asked what they thought was most important when choosing a mate, reports the Canadian Press. Men also cited fidelity as an important attribute, but not surprisingly they also highly valued physical attraction and being good in bed.
 
Here are the results of the Leger Marketing-Canadian Press survey of 1,052 adults that was conducted in January. Participants were asked to choose the three attributes they most valued in a potential mate, so the numbers add up to more than 100 percent.
 
What women want most in a man:
Faithful partner: 54 percent
Respect the other person's independence: 40 percent
Ability to listen: 35 percent
Physical attraction: 13 percent
Being good in bed: 6 percent

What men want most in a woman:
Faithful partner: 47 percent
Respect the other person's independence: 36 percent
Intelligence: 35 percent
Physical attraction: 26 percent
Being good in bed: 13 percent

The best place to meet that special someone:
Introduced by friends: 40 percent
Chance or luck: 17 percent
Introduced by family: 11 percent
Sports or social clubs: 7 percent
Work: 3 percent
Bars: 2 percent
Internet: 1 percent
Newspaper classifieds: 1 percent

Here's something that should gladden every heart: Fully 90 percent of those polled believe it is possible
to be happy with the same person for a lifetime."
 
--Cathryn Conroy
 

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Why It's Good to Be a Touchy-Feely Lover

 
Hold hands. Hug. Kiss in the morning. Kiss good night. Cuddling is not only good for relationships, but also helps reduce the physical effects of stress, reports USA Today of new research from the University
of North Carolina-Chapel Hill's School of Medicine.
 
Just a little loving contact early in the morning before you dash out of the house can have protective benefits on your heart and blood pressure throughout the day, asserts psychologist and study leader
Karen Grewen.
 
The experiment:
Under the direction of the UNC-Chapel Hill researchers, 100 adult volunteers, all of whom were married or long-term partners, held hands while watching a pleasant 10-minute video. Then they hugged for just 20 seconds. A second group of 85 people rested quietly without their partners. At the end of this time, all of them were asked to talk about something that happened to them recently that made them angry or upset. Typically, such discussion would cause an increase in heart rate and blood pressure.
 
The results:
Blood pressure rose dramatically in the group of people who had no contact with their partner--more than double the blood pressure rise of the "huggers."
Those who had no partner contact experienced an increased heart rate of 10 beats a minute, compared with just five beats per minute for the "huggers."
Face it, we're social beings. We need each other. USA Today reports that a different study from the Touch Research Institute at the University of Miami Medical School concluded that when we touch
someone else it lowers the stress hormone cortisol. That sets off a chain reaction in our bodies. The dip in cortisol creates a boost in serotonin and dopamine, two chemicals that make us feel really good.
 
Still, the best touch of all is from a lover. Touch from friends can be helpful, but it doesn't have the same effect as a lover's hug or kiss or consoling pat, according to psychologist Kathleen Light, co-author of the UNC study. The study findings were reported to the American Psychosomatic Society in Phoenix.
 
--Cathryn Conroy
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