{"id":2517,"date":"2012-07-23T19:52:11","date_gmt":"2012-07-23T23:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/?p=2517"},"modified":"2012-07-23T19:52:11","modified_gmt":"2012-07-23T23:52:11","slug":"the-love-scale-men-use-carrots-women-use-sticks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/23\/the-love-scale-men-use-carrots-women-use-sticks\/","title":{"rendered":"The Love Scale – Men Use Carrots; Women Use Sticks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Married men and women show love in different ways according to a new study<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Researchers from the University of Texas at Austin just completed a study that examines \"the widely accepted premise that men and women 'love differently'.\" \u00a0The study used data from 4 points of 13-year marriages. \u00a0Surprisingly, it found both genders equally likely to show love through affection.<\/p>\n

Researchers found that wives tended to show love by giving their sticks a rest. \u00a0That is, \u00a0they engage in \"fewer negative or antagonistic behaviors.\" \u00a0What does that mean? \u00a0It means that to show love, women nag less and shorten their honey-do lists. \u00a0Men showed love by offering carrots. \u00a0(Stop snickering.) \u00a0I mean, men show love by offering rewards; \u00a0 ie - initiating sex, sharing leisure activities and helping with housework.<\/p>\n

What was the conclusion? \u00a0The study found that men have been getting short-changed. \u00a0Society has widely considered women to be out-and-out better than men at showing love in relationships. \u00a0It turns out, both men and women show love in \"more nuanced ways than cultural stereotypes suggest.\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I guess the ways we show love are as big, and wide and vast as the ways we experience it. \u00a0To me, it's just more proof that love can't be limited, labeled or defined. \u00a0It only makes sense that the same philosophy applies to lovers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Married men and women show love in different ways according to a new study. Researchers from the University of Texas at Austin just completed a study that examines \"the widely accepted premise that men and women 'love differently'.\" \u00a0The study used data from 4 points of 13-year marriages. \u00a0Surprisingly, it found both genders equally likely ...continue reading \"The Love Scale – Men Use Carrots; Women Use Sticks\"<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2517"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2517"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2518,"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2517\/revisions\/2518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quackingalone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}