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Implications Of Absentee Courtships, William Rolfe Kerr
Implications Of Absentee Courtships, William Rolfe Kerr
All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023
In our society today the progress of many courtships and engagements is interrupted by separations of varying periods of time and for various reasons. Hill (1949) found that wartime family separations cause a two-dimensional crisis constituting a hazard to the continuance of the relationship both at the time of separation and at the time of reunion. The assumption is made that a courtship would be affected in a similar way. Blood (1963, p. 161) says,
Both partners change somewhat while they are apart. This is not due to the separation alone, however, for personality changes go on constantly. When people …