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- From: kath@pico.dr.att.com (54626-LeeK(DR1971)210)
- Newsgroups: alt.angst
- Subject: Re: Is this love, or just a dead heart??
- Message-ID: <22536@drutx.ATT.COM>
- Date: 19 Nov 92 16:19:32 GMT
- References: <83937@ut-emx.uucp>
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- In article <83937@ut-emx.uucp>, llama@pooh.cc.utexas.edu (sine nomine) writes:
- |> 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.)
-
- hi,
- new reader here, following the course of this particular item.
- hmmm, i'm kind of curious as to how long you've been with this
- latest person (maybe it's just the blindness of love right now
- keeping you in the excitement & joy mode, and when you regain
- your vision you'll lose the euphoria)
-
- Also, when the original writer was talking about this it brought
- to mind the men i've known who felt this "engine warming" stuff
- ecstasy is all well and good, but sometimes destructive
- a man carving my initials in his chest, a man
- leaving ridiculously expensive gifts on my door
- step every day...
- these things tend to make me wonder if it's me they want or the
- thrill they are somehow receiving in feeling this much emotion
- as though they're more addicted to passion than in love with a
- person. sometimes a quieter sense of emotion is alot more able
- to survive the realities of life, of love, of time...
-
-
- ps: i returned the gifts.
-
- kath
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