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- From: eda735a@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au (P.E. Mazur)
- Subject: Re: Becoming attracted to friends
- Message-ID: <1992Nov21.105247.14699@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au>
- Summary: yup
- Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
- References: <1992Nov9.120233.29782@wam.umd.edu> <11NOV199218080865@stars.gsfc.nasa.gov>
- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 10:52:47 GMT
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- In article <11NOV199218080865@stars.gsfc.nasa.gov>, casey@stars.gsfc.nasa.gov (Sean Casey GSFC (301)286-4558) writes:
- > In article <1992Nov11.194310.12209@oswego.Oswego.EDU>, DUDE@OSWEGO!UB! ( ) writes...
- > >friend that I am very much attracted to. We met last spring and kept in
- > >touch over the summer through letters. During the summer she began to date
- > >someone else, but that relationship crashed with the coming of fall. At the
- > >moment I know she isn't seeing anyone and we spend all are time together.
- > >We go out every weekend and yet our relationship has remained purerly on
- > >a platonic level. I know she has some feelings for me yet she seems very
- > >much afraid of commitment. I am aware that she has had very poor experience
- > >with dating and she tells me that although she's attracted to me,she feels
- > >much safer as just friends.
- > > There are many things that stand between us. Our political view are com-
- > >pletely opposite and we are from different religious backgrounds. She
- > >worries that relationships hinder independence, while I think they make
- > >a person more free.
- > > She was beaten as a child and her father abandoned her, Thus she is in
- > >a way distrustful of men.
- > > On the other hand, as friends we could not be closer. I still want more
- > >from the relationship. The only thing I can do is continue to be there for
- > >her and to show her that I truly care. I hope that in this way she will
- > >eventually see that I am not a threat to her. Perhaps someone out there
- > >on the net will have some useful advise.
- > >
- > > I would like to mention that I'm not just trying to get her in the
- > >sack. She is an important person to me and when I say more out of the
- > >relationship, I am more concerned with emotional love than physical. I
- > >desire a permanant relationship.
- >
- >
- > Sounds like you a getting ready for the big fall there. I'd be
- > ready for some hard times ahead. Cause when she's ready to fall
- > for somebody else, you can expect to feel like yesterday's
- > newspaper.
- >
- > SC (just my opinion)
- >
- Agreed! As I posted previosly here, this combination of mixing frienship
- and love is like drink driving. It's something you learn sooner or later...
- but it's a damn painfull way to learn from experience. *sigh*
- - Shem
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