Which mate preferences did you rate as indispensable? Discuss why that trait is most important. Which mate preferences did your rate as irrelevant or unimportant? What aspects of your own life make these traits irrelevant to your selection of a mate? Which mate preferences did you rate in the middle between indispensable and irrelevant? Are there circumstances under which these traits would be moved to either end of the continuum? What are they?
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