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- From: oneil@cwis.unomaha.edu (Sharon O'Neil)
- Subject: Re: How Strong Should a Man Be?
- Message-ID: <oneil.725956826@cwis>
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- Organization: University of Nebraska at Omaha
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- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 06:40:26 GMT
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- stone@cwis.unomaha.edu (Travis Stone) writes:
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- >Strong enough to keep from *breaking* a heart, through thoughtlessness,
- >lack of love, or indifference....
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- Hmmm...a man cannot always help breaking a heart. Or a woman, for that
- matter. I might point out that broken hearts are inevitable in this life.
- You just have to let time heal the pain.
-
- My ex-SO and I are trying to be friends now. But he tells me that it hurts
- him a great deal that I am so sad about the breakup. He tells me that it
- hurts him to see how much I am hurting and that this is standing in the way
- of our friendship.
-
- I have tried to tell him that there was no way to get around hurting me.
- When he decided that he needed to break up in order to make a new relationship
- with his current SO, there was no way that he was going to be able to do
- this without hurting me. No matter how he went about breaking up with me
- at that time, I was going to get hurt.
-
- And yes, I am still hurting. It's been about three months and it really is
- starting to get better, but I've been through this before. I didn't want
- the breakup and he did. I know it will take some time to get through it.
-
- What I'd really like to be, however, is friends. Just because I am hurting,
- however, does not necessarily mean that I want to get back together with him.
- Yes, it really hurts that we're not together, but I'm not so sure that
- getting back together would make me feel any better.
-
- Anyway, the real point I wanted to get across was this: sometimes you can't
- help breaking a heart. He really wanted to be with her and there wasn't
- much he could do except break up with me. If he'd stayed with me, he'd just
- resent me and it would be a lousy relationship.
-
- How strong does a man have to be? A man has to be strong enough to do what
- he thinks is right. And this goes for a woman too.
-
- Sharon
- oneil@cwis.unomaha.edu
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