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- From: walter (Walter Lego)
- Subject: Re: (LONG) Re: Living alone and liking it
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.194810.24804@walter.bellcore.com>
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- Organization: Twisted Pair Inc.
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 93 19:48:10 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan27.191908.18320@cbnewsd.cb.att.com> nance@cbnewsd.cb.att.com (nancy.l.colucci) writes:
- >Have either of you considered that *people* get what they get from
- >relationships based on who and what they are and why and how they conduct
- >themselves? And that relationships with similar outcomes in a person's life
- >do not indicate that *all* members of their preferred sex are this way or that
- >way?
-
- Bingo. I knew somebody would get it.
-
- >
- >If you have endured a set of similar relationships, consider the only real
- >common denominator in each situation. (Hint: Mirror mirror on the
- >wall ...)
-
- Er.. Nance, the last time I suggested the same to you (two women that have
- had bad relationships feeling the same way about men....remember that one?),
- I distinctly remember you flying off the handle. How times change.
-
- >People see only what they want to see. When you are emersed in a situation,
- >it's near impossible to step away from it to see the whole picture. It's
- >like trying to examine an oil painting with your nose pressed up against it.
-
- Besides I am convinced that more involved one is in a relationship, less
- introspective one becomes.
-
- Walter
-
- What disclaimer?
-