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- From: oneil@cwis.unomaha.edu (Sharon O'Neil)
- Subject: Re: Being Alone?
- Message-ID: <oneil.721868088@cwis>
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- Organization: University of Nebraska at Omaha
- References: <parker.721669946@uars_mag> <13NOV92.21925419.0026@lafibm.lafayette.edu> <1992Nov14.105811.1400@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> <1992Nov15.142817.13083@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
- Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1992 22:54:48 GMT
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- tlode@nyx.cs.du.edu (trygve lode) writes:
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- >In article <1992Nov14.105811.1400@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> allisson@turing.toronto.edu (H. Allisson Roome) writes:
- >>
- >>Why, if that's when she's ready. Maybe at that point she'll be older
- >>and wiser and truely ready for a complete relationship - one that has
- >>more to do with friendship, acceptance, and reality than the fiction
- >>called romance which is not how things are but how we want them to be.
-
- >Gosh, that sounds even more cynical than I am--is this allowed on
- >soc.singles? Personally, I wouldn't call romance a fiction at all--
- >indeed, romance is, in large part, a way of expressing acceptance and
- >caring and no more fictional than any other avenue of communication.
-
- I honestly believe -- and have been told I'm unusual for this belief -- that
- in a relationship, friendship should come before romance. Personally, I've
- *never* fallen head over heels in love with someone unless I was friends
- first. Maybe it *is* a little cynical, but I just don't believe in love at
- first sight, for myself anyway.
-
- I grow into love. I don't fall in love.
-
- Of course, *your* mileage may vary. I am not saying that people can't
- fall in love at first sight. It's just that I don't.
-
- It *is* frustrating for the men I date. The last two relationships I had
- were fairly serious and I know that both of the guys were in love with me
- before I was in love with them.
-
- Maybe it's because I look for a friend first, lover second.
-
- >Trygve (Not that I'm knocking friendship, acceptance, and reality,
- > mind you--I'm rather fond of them.)
-
- People are different. Life is weird that way.
-
- Sharon
- oneil@cwis.unomaha.edu
-
-