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When the Clock Keeps Ticking
and He’s Not Wearing a Watch
Quite often a woman will feel the pressure to get married
when her partner is happy to stay in stage four. She may hear
the clock ticking because she wants to get married and have
children and her childbearing years are running out, or she
may just feel that something is missing in their relationship if
they don’t get married.
As we have already discussed, many men don’t realize the
importance of going all the way emotionally by getting mar-
ried; if they are going all the way physically, they are satisfied.
After all, he thinks he is getting everything he wants, so why
should he risk moving on to the next stage? He doesn’t know
that by making a lifelong commitment to her not only would
he get more on an emotional level, but she would get what she
needed as well.
Marriage is to women what sex is to men. If a woman told
a man she only wanted to go to second base with him, he
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