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- From: llama@pooh.cc.utexas.edu (sine nomine)
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- Subject: Re: Is this love, or just a dead heart??
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- Date: 19 Nov 92 07:40:19 GMT
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- kovarik@martha.utcc.utk.edu (StMeechTheThwacked) wrote:
-
- : Maybe the engines really only "warm up" that first time you fall in
- : love? When you don't know what to expect? Now you know or believe or
- : expect things may not last, so you prepare yourself for the worst by
- : convincing yourself that the whole thing isn't that important. Or you
- : think you know what to expect. Maybe I am just a little too cynical.
-
- i dunno. my first "love," the guy i married, was increidbly low-key. i
- had a fairly torrid affair right before i moved here, but that was
- followed by a series of really quiet involvements. then i started
- dating the guy i tend to think of as my major ex, and it was like i'd
- never quite understood the concept before. lotsa smarm, lotsa
- burbling, lots of euphoria.
-
- after that breakup, i thought i'd definitely burned out whatever part
- of my brain produces that. i dated half-heartedly and even fell in
- "love" again, but it was like a business transaction: calm,
- controlled, reasonable.
-
- now i'm back to the incredible ecstatic rush again. and even though
- things are settling into a sort of "reality intrudes and we learn to
- deal with each other as real people" phase, that excitement and joy
- and wonder at our luck is still there.
-
- so maybe sometimes as you get older you get more prosiac, and with the
- ex, i'd known him for ages before the chemistry was there, but
- sometimes it still happens all at once.
-
- --
- sine | deb
- or, of course, i'm a mutant.
- (and, btw, it was definitely worth the wait.)
-
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