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- From: weaver@jetsun.weitek.COM (Michael Gordon Weaver)
- Newsgroups: alt.romance
- Subject: Re: "Made" or "Just Happens"?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.181546.1811@jetsun.weitek.COM>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 18:15:46 GMT
- References: <BxvBr5.GD0@acsu.buffalo.edu>
- Organization: WEITEK Corporation, Sunnyvale CA
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- In article <BxvBr5.GD0@acsu.buffalo.edu> v119qkv2@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu (POE) writes:
- >
- > There has been an on-going arguement as to whether or not relationships
- >have to be planned or just happen. Do you need a plan and a strategy to find
- >that special SO or do you play the waiting game and let nature take its course?
- >Does it just happen or do you have to make it happen? etc.
- >
- My experience and bias is that finding someone special is mostly a
- matter of luck (though you can always improve your odds a little), but
- relationships are made. Every time I talk separately to the two people
- in a couple, if one seemed to think that their relationship 'just
- happened', the other thought the relationship had come about through
- hard work. I feel a little sorry for couples like that.
-
- I think a good relationship requires that both partners see the
- relationship as a commitment that requires work. Just because you have
- been in a relationship a while doesn't mean you don't have to work. A
- relationship grows or dies.
-
- The confusing thing for me is trying to start a relationship. I said that
- finding someone special is mostly a matter of luck, and sustaining a
- relationship requires that both partners work at it. But when you have
- found someone you think is special, but they haven't made up their mind
- about you, it is hard to say whether you should be goal-driven or fatalistic.
- And the flip side when someone else is interested in getting involved, but
- you are unsure is even more confusing. These days I try to be goal-driven
- but patient. So I always know what the 'next step' is, but I never know
- when and if it is going to happen. This seems to work for me.
-
-
-
- Michael.
-