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> Perhaps she could be more flexible in partner selection?

My experience suggests that people are rarely more flexible than they need to be to meet their goals. And: why should they be?

This results in some amount of assortive mating (of the social, rather than genetic, variety), but I don’t see a likely path out of this. It’s the human version of “birds of a feather”.




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