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- From: smith@comm.mot.com (Jeff Smith)
- Subject: Re: Being Alone?
- Organization: Gagging Sloth Records
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 23:35:26 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.233526.16402@lmpsbbs.comm.mot.com>
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- In article <oneil.721868088@cwis>, oneil@cwis.unomaha.edu (Sharon O'Neil) writes:
-
- |> 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.
-
- Well, I don't either...although a healthy dose of Lust at First Sight isn't
- too hard to come by at times :-)
-
- It interests me that you find yourself becoming romantically attracted to
- people with whom you're already friends. Most of the cases I know of personally
- don't work that way. If a solid friendship is there first, I've actually
- seen resistance to anything more romantic.
-
- Take me for instance...on numerous occasions I've gone into a "relationship"
- (in quotes because I'm using it in the generic sense...i.e. not romantic,
- necessarily) thinking "I like this person, I want to make sure we're friends
- and then I'll try to make it something closer, but I still want to be friends
- if it doesn't work" and guess what...let's just say I have a lot of friends!
- For me, at least, if I go into it with the attitude that I want to be friends
- first, then that's usually what I end up with (which is not necessarily a bad
- thing...friendships are a valuable commodity!). Interestingly enough, it's
- worked in the reverse with me as well...in other words, someone I've been
- friends with for some time became interested in something "more"...I was very
- uncomfortable with that.
-
- Anyway, your mileage may vary, but that's been my experience...
-
- jds
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