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- From: bacon@mtu.edu (Jeff Bacon)
- Newsgroups: alt.romance,soc.men,soc.women,alt.sex,soc.couples,soc.singles
- Subject: Re: How Strong Should a Man Be?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan2.205647.4209@mtu.edu>
- Date: 2 Jan 93 20:56:47 GMT
- References: <C04LDD.BL3@world.std.com> <stone.725819462@cwis> <oneil.725956826@cwis>
- Organization: Michigan Technological University
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- In article <oneil.725956826@cwis> oneil@cwis.unomaha.edu (Sharon O'Neil) writes:
- >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.
-
- if it can.
-
- >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.
-
- *laugh* it hurts him to see you hurting which hurts you...vicious circle.
-
- >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.
-
- it's called "wishful thinking". I'm familiar with it. he doesn't
- want anyone to hurt, he just wants what he wants.
-
- >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.
-
- maybe that's just a general truth.
-
- -bacon
-