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- From: aahz@netcom.com (Mean Green Dancing Machine)
- Subject: Re: Definition of "monogamy"?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec25.185930.12464@netcom.com>
- Organization: Don't blame me, I voted for Bill 'n' Opus
- References: <memo.828677@cix.compulink.co.uk> <1992Dec24.183204.21457@netcom.com> <BztM9H.9sF@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1992 18:59:30 GMT
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- In article <BztM9H.9sF@news.cso.uiuc.edu> trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Barbara Trumpinski) writes:
- >aahz:
- >
- >>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'm not sure whether I'm misunderstanding you, or you're
- misunderstanding me. What I'm saying is that, in the end, I really
- don't see any *fundamental* difference between my love for Stef and my
- love for my parents.
-
- There are unique qualities to my love for Stef -- but I've had similar
- kinds of love in the past, and the way I feel about Stef is wildly
- different from the others. Are you saying then that I need to decompose
- my love to figure out what "kinds" of love I can and can't share?
- --
- --- Aahz (the *other* Dan Bernstein)
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