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Research has shown the longer couples live together, the lower their
reported contentment.
True  
False  

 
Over 70% of divorces are initiated by women.
True  
False  

 
One reason for current gender relations is that in the last 30 years,
women’s roles have dramatically transformed while men’s have not.
True  
False  

 
For the first time, the current generation of men and boys are being
raised to be intimate, rather than competitive performers.
True  
False  

 
Author Terrance Real contends that our culture teaches girls, more than
boys, how to have a healthy relationship with themselves or with others.
True  
False  

 
In the last 20 years, the trend for two-member working households is for
partners to share housework and childcare.
True  
False  

 
Real asserts that violence is a by-product of boyhood socialization.
True  
False  

 
Unlike femininity, masculinity represents a “negative identity”, where
boys are taught to disavow human qualities.
True  
False  

 
Jean Baker Miller asserts that the fault of the Patriarchal Vision is
the delusion of dominance.
True  
False  

 
Pia Mellody contends that, as opposed to disempowering abuse, falsely
empowering a child is actually a positive form of parenting.
True  
False  

 
Over the last 30 years, teaching couples communication skills has
resulted in a decreased incidence of divorce.
True  
False  

 
The most reliable predictor of long-term marital success is a pattern in
which wives, in non-offensive, clear ways, communicate their needs, and
their husbands alter their behavior to meet them.
True  
False  

 
Real contends that all therapists, under patriarchal mores, are coded as
female, and suffer the devaluation and intimidation as are traditional
wives.
True  
False  

 
In relational recovery, a therapist must slowly form a trusting
relationship with a male client before confronting difficult truths.
True  
False  

 
Real hypothesizes that whole traditional therapy is effective in dealing
with shame, it is generally ineffective when it comes to issues of
grandiosity.
True  
False  

 
While women appear to be over-dependent and men appear anti-dependent,
both genders are taught to renounce their wants and needs.
True  
False  

 
Sex therapist David Snarch observed that people tend to do in the
bedroom what they do not do in every other room.
True  
False  

 
The first phase of relational recovery, bringing the couple back into
connection, requires the partners, as individuals, to move beyond gender
roles that were imposed upon them as children.
True  
False  

 
Researchers at The Stone Center dispensed with the terms of “growth”
versus “connection” and developed the concept of growth-in-connection.
True  
False  

 
A state of worn-out disengagement is generally not a valid indicator of
eventual divorce.
True  
False  

 
The relational rule that surpasses all rules is that you must be
connected, willing to see what is in front of you, and willing to move
if what you are doing is not working.
True  
False  

 
Relational esteem helps us learn to speak the truth to ourselves.
Learning to speak relationally provides a map for telling our truth to
others.
True  
False