Word: bonding
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...Country Club in Raleigh, N.C. It's a stunning sight, the kind of thing you can afford when you have made $25 million as a trial lawyer. It's hard to be a good ole boy when you wear expensive suits. So is it condescending when he tries to bond with Southerners living in poverty? "I've worried about the same thing, actually," he says. "I've gone back and forth. Sometimes I've said 'we,' but I think 'we' is dishonest. I mean, most of these people who come to these events are not in the place that...
...same time, it's the sense of being in a kind of Christian haven, away from the world's traumas, that can make the campus seem especially welcoming for protective parents and religious students from large public high schools. A.P.U. professors seem to enjoy a closer bond with their students than those at many secular schools because of the 12-to-1 student-faculty ratio and the faith they have in common. At A.P.U., students talk about visiting their professors' homes and meeting their families. Biologist Milhon describes himself as "like a marriage counselor" for some of his students...
...jump out of her skin." Indeed, no other Australian city seems to shed its skin - or grow a new one - as readily as Sydney. After all, it's the place where an historic wharf can turn into luxury apartments for the likes of Russell Crowe. And where an old bond store in former working-class Millers Point can transform into a chic theater for the middle classes - the new Sydney Theatre, where Thomson's Harbour premiered this month...
...similar kind of imprinting might take place in humans. "Oxytocin release may help us bond to certain features in our partners," says Pfaus. "It's probably part of the mechanism that generates the template of what we find attractive." The next time you see your partner or someone like your partner, he theorizes, "the oxytocin is activated. It doesn't mean you have to be aroused. You just think, God, what a beautiful woman"--which might explain why we're attracted to the same type over and over...
Modern life has overloaded marriage, says Johnson. "Our sister no longer lives next door, our mother phones us once a month, we're too busy at work to create lasting bonds there. So we're even more dependent on our spouses than ever before." In a distressed relationship, that bond is fraying. Typically, one person criticizes and complains, while the other falls into a pattern of defending and withdrawing. "The amazingly sad thing," says Johnson, speaking of the typical pattern in couples, "is they love each other. The man loves his wife so desperately that he has put up this...