As a young professor at a big university, I'm able to talk to my students about rather personal issues like hooking up, relationships and sex. In one class, I asked students to diagram, on a large whiteboard, the evolution of a relationship — from first meeting to marriage. This was a fascinating exercise, and highlighted one key challenge in the dating game for young adults: "Hook-ups" are very common, but no group of college students can agree on exactly what the term means. Studies tell us that more than ...
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