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- From: sethb@fid.morgan.com (Seth Breidbart)
- Subject: Re: net.hugs?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov24.005246.6352@fid.morgan.com>
- Organization: my opinions only
- References: <64z158_@rpi.edu> <lgqh1lINNil7@news.bbn.com> <23NOV199215434284@lims02.lerc.nasa.gov>
- Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1992 00:52:46 GMT
- Lines: 41
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- In article <23NOV199215434284@lims02.lerc.nasa.gov>
- afdenis@lims02.lerc.nasa.gov (Stephen Dennison) writes:
- >In article <lgqh1lINNil7@news.bbn.com>, dhardin@bbn.com (Dawn Hardin) writes...
- >>In article <64z158_@rpi.edu>, petitc@nuge111.its.rpi.edu (Christopher Jon Petit) writes:
- >>Do you measure the quality of your relationships by how badly they hurt you?
-
- >Often, it's the size of the hole one leaves in your life upon vacating that
- >wakes you up to their importance to you. Valid point and not the *least*
- >bit silly, Dawn.
-
- But that isn't the measure. If the relationship manages to end
- "well", does that mean it was never important?
-
- >>Why do you think of "dates/SO's" as a source of pain? What's so romantic
- >>about hurting?
- >
- >A thing is granted *equal* power to lift you up *or* destroy you when it
- >enters your life. If it doesn't hurt much when it leaves, it didn't *help*
- >much while it was there. No great leap of logic in *that* assertion, is
- >there ?
-
- I don't see any logic there at all. Why should relationships be
- symmetrical around pain/pleasure? Mine aren't.
-
- > You only have *one* door to your heart ... it can't be opened
- >*fully* for pleasure and *partially* for pain. You either open it a crack,
- >thus limiting *both* the cost and the reward, or you *fling* it open and
- >risk all to *perhaps* gain all.
-
- Or you open it cautiously, and only *fling* it open after you're sure
- that it's your lover on the other side (and not a landshark).
-
- >Pain is *one* measure of love, albeit love lost. No one said it was the
- >*only* measure.
-
- Pain is a poor measure of love lost; it isn't any kind of a measure of
- any other love. [*]
-
- Seth sethb@fid.morgan.com
-
- [*] alt.sex.bondage probably disagrees with this statement.
-