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- From: becki@Ingres.COM (Rebecca E. Tants)
- Subject: Re: What's a "partner"? (was Re: treating men as sex toys)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan7.184304.9649@pony.Ingres.COM>
- Reply-To: becki@squid.ingres.com (Rebecca E. Tants)
- Organization: Ingres, The ASK Group
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- Date: 7 Jan 93 18:43:04 GMT
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- Guy Barry (gdb15@grebe.cl.cam.ac.uk) wrote:
- : I was originally curious about your use of the term "emotional
- : partner" because I recently had a conversation with someone who
- : insisted that a woman who wasn't sexually attracted to other women
- : could be considered a lesbian if she had an "emotional relationship"
- : with another woman. I couldn't understand what it meant to divide
- : personal relationships into "emotional" ones and "unemotional" ones.
- : Of course you get more emotionally involved with some friends than
- : with others, but drawing that sort of distinction struck me as rather
- : bizarre.
-
- Uhm - i can understand this distinction. annecdote: once long ago i had
- a friend (another female) who i became extremely close to, lived with, and
- broke up with. there was never anything sexual between us, and we both
- had other relationships during that time, but i personally list our split
- as the worst breakup i've ever had. it felt just like breaking up a
- marriage or other very permenant romantic relationship. everything was
- there BUT the sex.
-
- Now i have friends, very close friends, who i don't have that same type of
- relationship with. if you added sex to some of these relationships it
- would just be fun, but not the same as that feeling that comes with a lover.
- but with this friend, everything else was there.
-
- i see it as the very early roots of my bisexualism - all that was missing
- was the sex. i had that same level of emotional intimacy and closeness
- with her as with the best of my relationships before or since (more then
- most) and THAT, i think, is what muffy was refering to when she mentioned
- "emotional relationships".
-
- did that make any sense?
-
- becki
-
-