Gay and Straight Relationships
Here�s an interesting article in the current issue of Psychology Today (April, 2015): Gay Love, Straight Sense: 5 Lessons Everyone Can Learn from Same-Sex Couples. The lessons are these: 1. �Create fluid roles.� Because same-sex couples don�t have to divide roles by gender, they are free to discuss roles and to more effectively share roles. The roles are negotiated, rather than set down by society. 2. �Sexual experimentation is good.� Same-sex couples are more likely to talk about sexual preferences and desires and are not bound by �rules� often found in opposite-sex relationships. 3. �Keep calm amid conflict.� Apparently, same-sex couples engage in conflict in a �less accusatory, less belligerent, less domineering� manner. 4. �We�re all surrounded by attractive others; deal with it.� Unlike same-sex couples, gay men and lesbians have same-sex friends and regularly...