For Blog 8, this article talks about marriage and how when looking for a mate, women look to pair wisely and men prefer to pair widely. However according to studies this opens areas for conflict concerning the sex lives of men and women. This article talks about how sometimes couples can have trouble when having sex because they do not think of how short term sex can be negative. “Successful heterosexual relationships accommodate these evolved sex differences” (DeWall). I think that so far from this reading, It is reflecting on how opposites attract and have a really good chance at having a positive relationship. The first stage in the mating process is “prior to consummation” and it is basically when men can be emotionally manipulative to women to get sex out of them because of how women have a more emotional nature, yet women are still more likely to send signals that they want to have sex to men! After the relationship forms, feelings like jealousy can start to arise and make way for psychological distress and assumptions can start to damper on the relationship causing a rift between the partners. Lastly, after the breakup, unhealthy habits can form such as stalking can start between one of the people in the relationship in attempts to rekindle what they felt they had lost.