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- Organization: Queen's University at Kingston
- Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1992 23:53:08 EST
- From: K. Roper <ROPERK@QUCDN.QueensU.CA>
- Message-ID: <92362.235308ROPERK@QUCDN.QueensU.CA>
- Newsgroups: soc.couples
- Subject: Re: help! worried about friends...
- References: <1992Dec28.035809.29078@samba.oit.unc.edu>
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- It sounds to me like your friends' insistance that everything
- with them is *right* is really a statement about anything
- opposing them being *wrong*. That is, they feel this stunning
- need to -believe- in this relationship to escape something else
- (current family life, whatever), and are blinded to suggestions
- that might allow reality, in all its ugliness, to intrude.
-
- Everyone needs a dream, but ... uhhh ... this ain't it. This relationship
- sounds like an elaborate form of escapism, IMHO. It's a nice place
- to visit, but I wouldn't want to live there (I did; I moved).
-
- Suggestions? Sorry, but they're probably not going to listen. The
- fantasy is too attractive and too compelling. The only that will
- break the spell is reality, and that takes time.
-
- When the couple is that age, I view a union as a "practice marriage."
- Some folks aren't going to do it for good reasons until the second
- time (dare I say third?), even if they just renew their vows.
-
-
- Kim
-