Despite dissatisfaction with gender inequalities in domestic tasks and finance - many women express unhappiness primarily with what they perceive as men's unwillingness or incapacity to `do' the emotional intimacy which appears to them necessary to sustain close heterosexual couple relationships. We illustrate how similar discussions of gender differences in emotional behaviour have emerged elsewhere, raising questions about how far men's and women's emotional behaviour can and should change. Whereas, in homosexual couple relationships individuals have to adapt to new gender roles and take on characteristics that differ from the norm. Or learn to create intimacy symbiotically, where both individuals have similar gender
Despite dissatisfaction with gender inequalities in domestic tasks and finance - many women express unhappiness primarily with what they perceive as men's unwillingness or incapacity to `do' the emotional intimacy which appears to them necessary to sustain close heterosexual couple relationships. We illustrate how similar discussions of gender differences in emotional behaviour have emerged elsewhere, raising questions about how far men's and women's emotional behaviour can and should change. Whereas, in homosexual couple relationships individuals have to adapt to new gender roles and take on characteristics that differ from the norm. Or learn to create intimacy symbiotically, where both individuals have similar gender