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Divorces and Relationship Break-up have emerged as a very likely outcome of marriages and Relationship today, questioning the truth of the saying that marriages are ‘made in heaven’. The divorce rates among young couples are increasing progressively and have thus become an issue of major concern. Divorces were not so common in the past, but as time passed by, it began to be accepted as more of a common practice. Romantic relationships are a challenging endeavor that individuals seek as a primary goal to achieve in life, and when these relationships end, the termination can be detrimental and emotionally distressing. When taking a look at traditional romantic relationships, who, males or females, would handle this life-changing event worse? The stereotypical inclination would lead one to believe that women, who are more emotionally sensitive according to conventional wisdom, would handle this type of life event far worse than men because they are more relationally involved with others. Research has actually found that because men have more emotional and practical needs met in romantic relationships, they will suffer more from the ending of the relationship than do women Against conventional wisdom, men fall in love more quickly than women do, as well as actually taking relationship dissolution harder Ample evidence shows that gender differences heavily prevail within the dissolution of romantic relationships]. Men and women are socialized differently, therefore establishing a foundation in which gender differences become prevalent theoretically and socially.