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Role Reversals In Dating And Relationships

I love discussing things from a personal narrative, I think it gives what I'm writing about more feeling, I do not reveal the names of anyone I'm romantically linked with just to clear that up. Now we all learn about gender roles and gender schema as it relates to society in sociology, but I want to discuss how those crossover in modern relationships. When our parents and grandparents were growing up you had the typical gender roles, the husbands went to work while the wives stayed home and were like June Clever, at least that's how my maternal grandmother was, now as society has changed you have a lot of role reversal, and you even have non traditional gender roles in non traditional relationships, we will get there later. What I want to talk about now is courtship, usually when a person expresses interest in you and you express it back, you all begin to date and the rest is history, now it seems as though guys want to be chased,and play the role traditionally ...