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- From: dyer@spdcc.com (Steve Dyer)
- Newsgroups: soc.motss
- Subject: Re: Minor Crises was(long-term relationships)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.201935.20712@spdcc.com>
- Date: 30 Dec 92 20:19:35 GMT
- Article-I.D.: spdcc.1992Dec30.201935.20712
- References: <1992Dec29.190012.13298@bsu-ucs> <1992Dec30.015230.2942@macc.wisc.edu> <30DEC92.15333577@enh.nist.gov>
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- In article <30DEC92.15333577@enh.nist.gov> aberson@enh.nist.gov writes:
- >In a previous article, anderson@macc.wisc.edu (Jess Anderson) wrote:
- >>>>I guess this means you haven't reached the "What? You
- >>>>want to have sex again? I'm too tired. Didn't we just do
- >>>>it last month?" phase yet.
- >>
- >>In my ten grand affairs, lasting an average of 3.5 years
- >>each, the longest 10.5 years, I never once ran into this
- >>apparently common business of getting tired of one another
- >>as sexual partners.
-
- I think you're both unusual and lucky.
-
- >Oh, Jess. I was just being silly. I really like using this line on
- >couples who are just getting started, or who only have a couple of
- >years under their belts. It scares them, not as much as being non-
- >monogamous does (which can be a fact), but it is interesting to see
- >their reactions nonetheless. "We have *that* to look forward to?"
- >All in fun.
-
- It's "fun" because there's an element of truth to it, though it can
- have all sorts of manifestations, and not everyone experiences it to
- the same degree. In fact, it's not even all that rare between
- heterosexual couples (no!) either.
-
- --
- Steve Dyer
- dyer@ursa-major.spdcc.com aka {ima,harvard,rayssd,linus,m2c}!spdcc!dyer
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