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- From: nef@calmasd.Prime.COM (Nancy Fox)
- Newsgroups: soc.motss
- Subject: Re: long-term relationships...success stories, please...
- Keywords: relationships long-term lengthy
- Message-ID: <5384@calmasd.Prime.COM>
- Date: 21 Dec 92 18:48:43 GMT
- References: <1992Dec17.022140.21531@serval.net.wsu.edu> <wood.724690404@jfred>
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- In article <wood.724690404@jfred> wood@siemens.com. (Jim Wood) writes:
- >gerkman@binky.csc.wsu.edu (Joseph M. Gerkman) writes:
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- >>I kinda want to hear some
- >>success stories of long-lasting relationships...hopefully ones that are
- >>still going strong...
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- I responded privately to Joseph, but for the public record, Judy and I
- celebrated 18 years in October. If the marriage thing works out in
- Hawaii, we are considering a double wedding with our good friends,
- Peter and Eli, who live there.
- >
- >David and I celebrate our fifth anniversary on this coming Monday,
- 12/21/92.
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- Congratulations, Jim. I was stuck but how similar our responses were.
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- >Two things: money and sex.
- >
- These are indeed two of the big ones, and should be talked about
- openly and honestly.
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- >The same thing concerns sex. A lot of relationships die when the torrid
- >lights of passion flicker, and the crucial part is to work on maintaining
- >a healthy and varied sex life, to agree on what the bounds of the relationship
- >are, and to maintain honesty with respect to the issues.
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- Exactly. Everything you said.
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- Nancy
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