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- From: becki@Ingres.COM (Rebecca E. Tants)
- Newsgroups: soc.bi
- Subject: Re: What's a "partner"? (was Re: treating men as sex toys)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan8.214405.10322@pony.Ingres.COM>
- Date: 8 Jan 93 21:44:05 GMT
- References: <93007.234211SAUNDRSG@QUCDN.QueensU.CA>
- Reply-To: becki@squid.ingres.com (Rebecca E. Tants)
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- Graydon (SAUNDRSG@QUCDN.QueensU.CA) wrote:
- : Hmm... Becki, the register I go and look at when I'm trying to figure
- : out if I'm in love or if my hormones are being unusually clamorous is
- : labeled 'And loved the Other above all things'.
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- mmmm....i think the measure i use is 'this persons happiness and wellbeing is
- second only to my own in importance, and a crucial part of my own happiness
- and wellbeing (although not an exclusive part).
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- : Is that sorta what you mean? As opposed to the (perhaps very deep)
- : love for a friend that doesn't make them your primary emotional
- : priority? (after yourself, or pretty much the same as yourself;
- : ahead of yourself is the way of madness.)
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- i think so. during my relationship with this person, she was my primary
- emotional priority, and my primary emotional connection. i did things
- (as one sometimes do with a lover) that were directly against my better
- judgement in order to make us both happier. it left all my very close
- friends in the dust.
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- becki
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- Becki (aka Roo) becki@ingres.com
- The problem with society is that Stupidity is no longer a self-curing disease
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