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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> <BztM9H.9sF@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <1992Dec25.185930.12464@netcom.com>
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- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
- Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1992 19:51:28 GMT
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- In <1992Dec25.185930.12464@netcom.com> aahz@netcom.com (Mean Green Dancing Machine) writes:
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- >>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...
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- aahz:
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- >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?
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- kitten:
-
- okay....but now i am confused as to what this has to do with monogamy....
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- any kind of love can be shared....or not.
-
- --
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