Author to discuss relationships
Lincy George/News Editor
Issue date: 3/23/05 Section: News
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Patty Stark, author of Sex is More Than a Plumbing Lesson, will speak in Gorman B at 8 p.m. Thursday, March 31.
Stark, who has been invited to speak by the Jane Austen Society, said she will talk about making relationships with the opposite sex successful. The talk is open to all, Stark said.
Success in relationships depends on understanding how relationships develop and knowing what direction and steps to take to make a relationship work, Stark said.
"I [compare] it to somebody who wants to get to Houston. [The person] takes Interstate 30 and ends up [elsewhere]. My job is to tell the person to get on Interstate 45 [the road to Houston].
"You don't have to keep wandering. There is a clear path. When you get on it, you find that you quit wasting time, you quit having your heart broken, and you have serenity," she said.
Making relationships work requires an understanding of how relationships develop, which Stark discussed previously at UD.
Stark said she will briefly review her previous talk at UD and focus primarily on steps to success in relationships.
"In the first evening together, we talked about the concept of there being an ecology to human relationship. [On March 31], we will talk about how you take that ecology and start to work with it in your own relationship so you start getting superior results," she said.
Kelly Dupen, Jane Austen Society president, said the society invited Stark because Stark's message resembles the ideas presented in Jane Austen's work.
"We think what Patty Stark says about courtship applies today. It is still important to have boundaries and respect in relationships. What we see and read in books by Jane Austen indicate that people had given standards back then.
"But now, we don't have a cultural road map anymore for relationships. I think it would be really interesting to bring someone to campus who is of the opinion that we should and can bring back those standards of dignity and respect in relationships," she said.
Stark has spoken about love, relationships, and marriage to high school and university students, and career singles since 1980. She has also spoken in Australia, Canada, and India.
Stark, who has been invited to speak by the Jane Austen Society, said she will talk about making relationships with the opposite sex successful. The talk is open to all, Stark said.
Success in relationships depends on understanding how relationships develop and knowing what direction and steps to take to make a relationship work, Stark said.
"I [compare] it to somebody who wants to get to Houston. [The person] takes Interstate 30 and ends up [elsewhere]. My job is to tell the person to get on Interstate 45 [the road to Houston].
"You don't have to keep wandering. There is a clear path. When you get on it, you find that you quit wasting time, you quit having your heart broken, and you have serenity," she said.
Making relationships work requires an understanding of how relationships develop, which Stark discussed previously at UD.
Stark said she will briefly review her previous talk at UD and focus primarily on steps to success in relationships.
"In the first evening together, we talked about the concept of there being an ecology to human relationship. [On March 31], we will talk about how you take that ecology and start to work with it in your own relationship so you start getting superior results," she said.
Kelly Dupen, Jane Austen Society president, said the society invited Stark because Stark's message resembles the ideas presented in Jane Austen's work.
"We think what Patty Stark says about courtship applies today. It is still important to have boundaries and respect in relationships. What we see and read in books by Jane Austen indicate that people had given standards back then.
"But now, we don't have a cultural road map anymore for relationships. I think it would be really interesting to bring someone to campus who is of the opinion that we should and can bring back those standards of dignity and respect in relationships," she said.
Stark has spoken about love, relationships, and marriage to high school and university students, and career singles since 1980. She has also spoken in Australia, Canada, and India.