Wait for your man to pop up the question

Updated on: 01 February,2011 01:42 PM IST |
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Those women who are planning to propose to their man today should drop the plan, and rather wait for him to pop the question, a leading expert on marriage has warned

Those women who are planning to propose to their man today should drop the plan, and rather wait for him to pop the question, a leading expert on marriage has warned.

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February 29 is the day when women traditionally propose to men. But in spite of decades of women's emancipation, more than 90 per cent of proposals still come from men.

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Harry Benson, a political adviser on families and relationships, says that there's an explanation behind this trend.
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He suggests that rather than going for it themselves, women should leave the decision to men in order to have a stable relationship in future.
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Benson cited studies which have shown that it is crucial that a man makes a "positive decision" to marry rather than be coerced into matrimony for the relationship to be a success.
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u00a0"Getting married needs to be a choice men make for themselves," Times Online quoted Benson, as saying.
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"Whereas most women commit to a relationship when they move in together, most men will only fully commit when they have made a clear decision about their future," he added.
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He said his observations were based on a study by the University of Denver which found that men who moved in with their girlfriends before getting engaged constantly had lower levels of commitment through a marriage

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