Word: partner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Others argue that in marriages across the generation gap, there is often so little genuine communication that each partner treats the other as a sort of exotic object. But such psychological distancing may be very valuable. It frequently breeds a courtesy and romantic regard that in a marriage of contemporaries disappears under a mound of unpaid bills and diapers...
...wake early." Other psychologists agree that recalcitrant risers simply do not like the activity that awaits them and subconsciously would rather stay in the womb of sleep. It is also well known that early-rising spouses often suffer attacks of fury at the sight of a still-sleeping partner. The only relief: to wake him or her by slamming doors, turning on radios, or sending relays of children to jump up and down...
...open your eyes and return to the group," John said. "Remember your three secrets and move around the room on your hands and knees until you find a partner. Tell your partner your first secret. Then find a second partner, and tell him your second secret; tell your third secret to a third partner...
Slowly the units of humanity began to crawl around the room, and one by one secrets of a lifetime poured out. Stories of lesbianism, impotence, divorces, affairs--there was no shortage of them. The boy's third partner was a big man, about 35 years old, who must have weighed 220 pounds. "I slapped my wife once," he said...
...sure his partner could do better than that...