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- From: martinc@grover.cs.unc.edu (Charles R. Martin)
- Newsgroups: soc.singles
- Subject: Re: Credibility...
- Date: 25 Jan 93 23:29:01
- Organization: UNC Department of Computer Science
- Lines: 46
- Message-ID: <MARTINC.93Jan25232901@grover.cs.unc.edu>
- References: <ewright.727735009@convex.convex.com>>
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- <ewright.727854345@convex.convex.com> <lm8bdaINN8tu@news.bbn.com>
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- In-reply-to: ewright@convex.com's message of Mon, 25 Jan 1993 18:54:20 GMT
-
- In article <ewright.727988060@convex.convex.com> ewright@convex.com (Edward V. Wright) writes:
-
- In <lm8bdaINN8tu@news.bbn.com> dhardin@bbn.com (Dawn Hardin) writes:
-
- >1) Would you consider a person who had one or two dates a month with people
- >that he/she never went out with again to be non-single?
-
- I would say that person was single most of the time, but non-single
- once or twice a month.
-
- See, that's why I restated 'single' to fit what *I* understood you to
- mean. By your definition, I've been not-single twice this week already.
- But I misdoubt that there was anyone who understood you to be saying
- 'not on a date at the current moment'. However ...
-
- Most people who say they are happy being single do not mean they are
- happy having no interaction with the opposite sex (assuming they are
- heterosexual). They mean either a) that they are unwilling to accept
- the additional responsibility and commitment required to move further
- toward the nonsingle end or b) that they do not want to give up something
- they think they would have to give up if they became permanently nonsingle.
-
- But your logic is corrupt here. First of all, what you say is that I
- can't be happy right now, right where I'm sitting, with no one in the
- room but the cats and me. And I'm still happy as a clam.
-
- Beyond that, I just spent 10 years married. I struggled to try and
- "make it work" right up to the day my ex told me she was taking the
- money and leaving for Australia. I defy you to responsibly say I was
- unwilling to accept the responsibility and committment of being
- non-single. And by the way you contradict your own definition here,
- since either "non-single" is as weak as "currently on a date" -- in
- which case responsibility and committment aren't much of a requirement
- -- or you mean something closer to a "committed relationship" which is
- the definition I proposed and you ignored.
-
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