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- From: trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Barbara Trumpinski)
- Subject: Re: Definition of "monogamy"?
- References: <memo.828677@cix.compulink.co.uk> <1992Dec24.183204.21457@netcom.com>
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- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
- Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1992 15:12:52 GMT
- Lines: 51
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- aahz:
-
- >Part of the reason I'm asking here about monogamy is that it really
- >doesn't make sense to me in some fundamental way: it makes a set of
- >artificial distinctions that don't apply in Real Life.
-
- >Let's start with emotional monogamy. I love my parents, I love my
- >sister, I love a lot of the people I know from this Place -- in what way
- >is my love for Stef really any different? Why shouldn't I share a
- >similar kind of love with many other people? Note that I do recognize
- >that there's a time-based component to love: you can't really love
- >someone as *intensely* when you spend less time with them, and the
- >*quality* of the love also changes.
-
- kitten jumps in again:
-
- "you made the point there...emotional monogamy is saving one
- particular kind of emotion for one specific significant other. love
- for parents, cats, friends, doesn't figure in at all...
-
- i am not very good at it....i am a 'clinger' to the past...and i still
- have emotional connections of deep love with people who don't feel the
- same way...it puts a strain on my primary relationship...because t.c.
- thinks that this kind of feeling can be diminished by spreading it
- around. that is, if you love more than one person deeply, the love is
- less for all...in the same way that if you share a chocolate cake
- between two people, each gets more than if you share the same cake
- with 10 people. LOVE DOESN'T WORK THAT WAY!"
-
- >Physical monogamy makes more sense in a way. Still, hugs and backrubs
- >are OK :) -- so where do you draw the line? Anything you can do with
- >clothes on? No intercourse? How do you determine the difference
- >between a friendly "hello/goodbye" kiss and a romantic one?
-
- "i've never been any good at this either....because i think that sex
- can be a part of friendship (for certain values of friendship) and
- other people do not assume this is so.
-
- this is NOT the same thing as being promiscuous.
-
- it is also NOT something that is accepted in my primary
- relationship....and compromise is the key to a happy marriage...."
-
- --
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- conan the librarian a.k.a. kitten /\ /\ barbara ann
- "my life's a soap opera, isn't yours?" {=.=}
- ~ trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu
- "love is the wild card of existance"
- rita mae brown
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