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- From: bcapps@agora.rain.com (Brent Capps)
- Newsgroups: soc.motss
- Subject: Re: long-term relationships...success stories, please...
- Message-ID: <BzvoK4.537@agora.rain.com>
- Date: 26 Dec 92 17:57:40 GMT
- Article-I.D.: agora.BzvoK4.537
- References: <1992Dec17.022140.21531@serval.net.wsu.edu> <RHAYDEN.92Dec24113742@hqsun2.oracle.com>
- Organization: Open Communications Forum
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- >In article <1992Dec17.022140.21531@serval.net.wsu.edu> gerkman@binky.csc.wsu.edu (Joseph M. Gerkman) writes:
-
- > ...I kinda want to hear some success stories of long-lasting
- > relationships...
-
- I didn't reply to this at first because I didn't consider 8 years to
- be that long-term -- 5 year, 7 year, 10 year relationships are quite
- common within our circle of friends. We once lived upstairs from a
- couple who had been together 18 years. I guess I'd consider anything
- over about 15 years to be long term.
-
- It's been my observation that there are four 'crisis periods' in a
- relationship. The first occurs the morning after when you decide
- whether the rumpled person asleep at your side is worth making breakfast
- for. The second occurs sometime between 1 week and 1 month, when you
- will discover whether a lasting relationship requires a more solid
- foundation than your partner's ability to tie a cherry stem into a knot
- with his/her tongue. Between 3 months and 1.5 years you will learn
- whether leaving the cap off the toothpaste is grounds for divorce.
- Finally, sometime between 7 and 10 years you will resign yourself
- to hearing the following question every evening for the rest of your
- life: "I dunno, what do YOU want to do for dinner?"
-
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