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ruskinr@aruba.ccit.arizona.edu (Robert H Ruskin) wrote:

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>The biggest crime about the "Third Date Rule" is that it boils everything 
>down to sex. If sex is not in the works, then then relationship should be 
>abandoned. Somehow if you go out on a "date" [I no longer know what that 
>is] three times, you should know whether you want to go to bed with 
>him/her. How stupid can you get!!!! Ah, but if you are a "friend" somehow 
>you don't count as a possible romantic interest, you NEVER go out on a 
>"date" with a friend. If there is one thing that angers me about today's 
>generation, it is this application of the "Third Date Rule" because it is 
>so dehumanizing. [It is interesting to note that women in their 20's who 
>consider themselves pretty, and who based upon their self evaluation 
>of their looks discard men because they are not "My type", tend to beg 
>for men when they hit 40-50 when their beauty is fading]. 

Perhaps I'm naive, or have lived a sheltered like, but this is the very first
time in my 35 years I have ever heard of this three date "rule". Are you sure
you didn't just make it up?

Jack