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- From: ftlao@acad3.alaska.edu (OSSANDER LINDA A)
- Subject: Re: Is anyone out there like me?
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- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 18:45:00 GMT
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- In article <JMD.92Dec24130227@lion.bear.com>, jmd@bear.com (Josh Diamond) writes...
- >
- >In article <Bzquzr.M4t@cantua.canterbury.ac.nz> sjb@einstein.canterbury.ac.nz (Sutekh) writes:
- >
- > my question is,just how much importance do you all put on emotions?
- > i personally am cold,with very little desire to experience tenderness or
- > intimacy and certainly no desire to have children,with all the emotions that
- > are associated(watching parents with children makes me feel ill!)
-
- Well then you should not get married and have a family. A woman will only yake
- a cold man for so long, then she will leave him. I personally put alot of
- importance on emotions and touching and cuddling. Without that I would rather
- be alone. As a matter of fact that is why I divorced my ex-husband. He is
- basically a nice person but he was married to his job. I gave him every chance
- in the book and finially said enough. Without the tenderness and intimAcy
- life is to lonely and if I just want sex I could take care of myself.
- You might think about some counseling before you wind up alone.
-
- >
- >Why? Why do feel that you are cold?
- >
- >Personally, I put a lot of importance on emotions. How can I be in a
- >relationship with someone who doesn't feel? In my experience, the one
- >vital component in any friendship (let alone romantic relationship) is
- >compassion -- the ability to feel along with someone else, or to
- >empathise.
- >
- > is anyone else out there like me?especially females,i would be
- > interested to know.(i am a male).has anyone ever had a relationship
- > with a emotionally cold person,and enjoyed the experience?and has
- > anyone out there who is like me,had a relationship with a warm person
- > and liked it? i'd like to know,its hard to find out from people in
- > regular life,they seem to think i come from another planet.
- >
- >See above...
-
- Yes I had a relationship with someone who was cold and he used it to keep me in
- line..ONCE but NEVER again.. I did not enjoy the experiance AT ALL.
- He did not appear that way in the beginning but the longer we were married the
- colder he became. The iceberghs had nothing over him as far as emotion. Now I
- am never going to settle for someone who is cold again. Took me a long time to
- figure it out but as a woman I love to cuddle and touch and be cuddled and
- touched. At 43 I am learning about real intimacy and it almost makes me feel
- like a kid again..*Sigh* with pleasure of course.
-
- >
- >A question: What do YOU want in a relationship, Sutekh? That is, what
- >do you want the _relationship_ to be like -- as opposed to what you
- >want the person with whom you are in relationship with to be like.
- >
- >For instance, I want a loving, trusting, honest, joyfull and
- >passionate relationship.
-
- YES!!! So do I and without that I would rather be alone.
-
- >
- > please send me some replys,i'd like to get past all the media imagary
- > of what people are like(all the kissing and stuff) and see how many
- > people are really different than all that,without being axe murderers
- > or something.
- >
- I am into pleasure not pain...
-
- >Why close down physical intimacy as a possibility in your life? What
- >beliefs do you have which tell you that physical intimacy is not right
- >for you?
- >
- >It sounds to me like you have shut off a very large part of what it
- >means to be human, by physically separating yourself. Why not be
- >intimate? It _is_ a powerful way of showing a feeling of connection
- >with your fellow human beings, especially that special one human
- >being...
-
- Yes and it is really sad because you are missing so much..Open up and become
- the loving person you are. Don't hide behind a mask.
-
- Merry Christmas Spidey!!! *HUGS* If you want them if not pass them on..
-
-
- -Linda-
-