Are there rules for the date for men?

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Host: Are there rules for the date for men?

Gloria MacDonald: You know there really are rules for the date. Women have rules for the date and men tend to be blissfully unaware of what those rules are, but its interesting how these rules developed and you know it really comes from thousands of years of evolutionary psychology. If you think about it today, we are kind of in the very first generations of women, who can support themselves.

It wasn t much more than a 100 years ago that women couldn t own property, women had to either live -- marry a man, to be with a man or they had to live with their family; otherwise, they would have no way to support themselves, no way to live. I mean, it wasn t all that long ago that women finally got the right devote. So, we have had thousands, thousands, and thousands of years where women had to have a man to survive and really for most all of us that are around today that are dating whether you are 20 or 65.

The role models we had in our parents were still that, our fathers were the primary breadwinners and for most of us are families wouldn t have been able to survive, if we had to depend just upon our mothers for the income they could bring in. So, even though today as women we can t support ourselves, it s not the role models, we grow up with and it s not the thousands and thousands of years of evolutionary physiology that we as human beings have just innately in us.

So, the reason why women have these whole test structured is because they needed to be able to find a man, who could support them otherwise they couldn t survive in this world. So, this is all very subconscious, women don t realize they are doing this, but they are doing this intuitive through the literally hundreds and hundreds of women that we have interviewed the test was the same.