“Commitment often means that a woman achieves her primary fantasy, while a man gives his up. In exchange for forfeiting his primary fantasy, what does he hope to fulfill? His primary need: intimacy.”

— Warren Farrell

Source: Why Men Are the Way They Are (1988), p. 150.

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