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- From: rickk@public.BTR.COM (Rick)
- Newsgroups: alt.romance
- Subject: Re: Though I have released you
- Summary: In response to: Why do relationships end
- Message-ID: <8361@public.BTR.COM>
- Date: 23 Nov 92 05:39:51 GMT
- References: <1992Nov17.193935.1@ntc02.tele.nokia.fi> <1ed616INN3jh@agate.berkeley.edu>
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- Billy C. asks how to find out why relationships ended.
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- Some years ago, I'd have said that the best way to find out would be
- to talk it through.
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- I've got a different answer now. My answer now is to sit down
- and spend time reviewing the relationship from the point of view
- of "what did >> I << do to contribute to the demise of the relationship?"
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- It's so easy to blame the other person... and that other person
- probably did just about as much to damage the relationship as you
- did. Some of what that person did was probably in response to what
- you did, just as some of what you did was probably in response to
- things that the other person did.
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- But, if your aim is to learn so that the next relationships don't
- repeat the same patterns and mistakes, look at your own part in
- the problems.
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- (Which doesn't say there won't be mistakes in the future ...but at
- least you won't be smacking your forehead and saying "gee, this
- feels familiar" as yet another relationship goes down the tubes for
- the same reasons.)
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- Rick
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- Practice random kindness and senseless acts of beauty! (rickk@btr.com)
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