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An Island Publishers Newsmagazine

June 6, 1990

LOVE

& MARRIAGE

By KERRY READSHAW _

m not looking for a soul mate.
I’m standing in the downtown
library, ’'m eagerly perusing
Dian Hanson’s How to Pick up
a Man, but I am not looking. But he
is. He looked at me, looked at the
cover of the book I’m reading, and
now he’s... =
“T see we have the same problem,”
he says, “judging by the book.” -
“You have trouble meeting men?”
I’m not sure why I’ve been selected
for the confidence.
He laughs, nervously. It has taken
courage to walk up to me, a stranger, and
it takes courage to explain that he’s new
to town, doesn’t know anybody, would
like to have coffee with me. We both
flush when I explain that I’m not, as they

- say, looking for a special someone — I’m

a writer, doing research.

In terms of research, the situation is a
bonus. A visit to the public library has
indicated one way to meet the opposite
sex (the book is catalogued 646.77. Se-
cond floor.) and that, as suspected, peo-
ple are searching for relationships.

“T think relationships are an item of
huge interest right now. This generation
is defining, and pursuing, them in a way
that I don’t think previous generations
did,” says counsellor Frank Quinby.

His opinion is verified by the numbers
of ads offering the services of marital or
relationship counsellors and by the
scores of workshops offered to people
who are — as a Camosun College course
description recently advertised — “en-
tering into marriage or making a rela-
tionship commitment.” Further empha-
sizing the quest for true love is the
expansion of introduction service busi-
nesses and the popularity of books and
magazines with “Is this the relationship
for you?” quizzes and hints about how to
find and keep mates.

Continued on Page 3

HAPPY NEWLYWEDS blossom like flowers in spring but better chance at the sort of happiness exhibited by
divorce rates are on the rise across this country. these newly-weds, Dana and Pat Fantilo. (Photo by
Despite the fact that wedded bliss doesn’t appear Chuck Groot at Old Masiers Portrait Studio)
to stay as long as it once did, today’s couples have a

THE OLD HOUND DOG himself

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Mi LIFE’S LIKE THAT: mm GOLDENROD:

Joan Myles says the A house is not always a
nights in June are just home but sometimes it
too short and that bit can be, even if it’s locat-
about the early bird ed in an industrial
getting the worm... park. Ivy Kent tells a
was way ahead of his time Well, it’s forthe birds/ tale of one woman’s

housing woes./ Page
19:

E DR. TOMORROW:
Our resident futurist
says he’d place his
money on Newfoun-
dland before Quebec in
the consitutional :

squabble but not for EMIEY CARR cno of seve
the reasons many tured in an exibit at the Ant

would./ Page 12. Gallery of Greater Victoria. See
Page 14.