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August 4, 2008, Evolutionary Psychology

Comments on "Separation Distress Among Romantic Partners and its Lessons for Human Mating"

Separation Distress Among Romantic Partners and its Lessons for Human Mating

By Paul Eastwick on August 4, 2008 in The Attractionologists

When I was 11, my stepmother described how she broke down while traveling in China. She was away from my father for 5 weeks, and at the time of one of their scheduled phone calls, she couldn't find a way to connect. Read More

Interesting article

Submitted by Tessa on August 4, 2008 - 10:43am.

I read Psychology Today articles every once and a while and this is what was in today's...

I am not the only one who has separation anxiety when you are away....

Tessa
xo

i can't stand the thought

Submitted by chary on August 14, 2008 - 7:47pm.

i'll be marrying the man i love so much and i wanted to spend every minute with him after marriage. unfortunately, we both have careers and our jobs needed our attention..he's a soldier, i'm a recruitment officer and we can't afford to loose our jobs by filing long days for vacation. after the wedding,we would be separated again,and would only communicate through phone. i don't know how hard it would be but we both are willing to take the risk. things will work out if we would work it out..

If Romance is there, living

Submitted by AG on August 17, 2008 - 12:45am.

If Romance is there, living away from each other for sometime, is a good way to keep fit the relationship's hleath fit
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social psychology experiment

Submitted by Natalie on March 31, 2009 - 7:37pm.

not sure if you guys read your comments section..i'm a freshman and was given a group project our first day of class...the topic was attraction and we are at a loss for ideas..i was wondering if either of you could be of any help??

re: social psychology experiment

Submitted by Paul Eastwick on March 31, 2009 - 8:21pm.

I don't have any specific ideas, but most of my published work is on attraction - feel free to check those papers out at www.eastwick.motives.com if you're interested.