It's amazing. My first reaction, instead of "wow, that's great. I'm glad that researchers are finding more commonalities between heterosexual couples and other couples," was "man, why does it seem like monogamy always gets equated with healthy relationships." And then I realized that i was interpreting "commitment" to mean "monogamy" before even reading the studies. I will check out the studies later, but I'm most curious to know how, exactly, "commitment" was defined and measured. Certainly the characteristics mentioned in the press release as being measured in the first study ("quality of interaction" and "level of satisfaction" along with skin conductance and heart rate) don't necessarily imply monogamy. Nor, really, do those mentioned regarding the second study (although "sexual behavior" is mentioned, which may mean "number of partners".)

Looking forward to reading both of these. Thanks for posting them Gracie!

(And we really do need to get that research commentary group together! Volunteers?) 

...because public space really matters!

Elizabeth