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Finding the Right Person to Marry
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This chapter explores beliefs that emerging adults hold about mate selection, or the process people go through to select romantic partners. An overview is provided of mate-selection theories, and the main themes that emerged from the interview data are detailed. Emerging adults appear to desire very different things when it comes to short-term and long-term dating partners, and this creates a unique paradox because emerging adults must shift their dating criteria when they decide to marry. Many emerging adults still very much believe in the concept of a soul mate. Cohabitation is discussed as a mechanism through which emerging adults hope to uncover what their dating partners are truly like.
Title: Finding the Right Person to Marry
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This chapter explores beliefs that emerging adults hold about mate selection, or the process people go through to select romantic partners.
An overview is provided of mate-selection theories, and the main themes that emerged from the interview data are detailed.
Emerging adults appear to desire very different things when it comes to short-term and long-term dating partners, and this creates a unique paradox because emerging adults must shift their dating criteria when they decide to marry.
Many emerging adults still very much believe in the concept of a soul mate.
Cohabitation is discussed as a mechanism through which emerging adults hope to uncover what their dating partners are truly like.
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