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- From: stone@cwis.unomaha.edu (Travis Stone)
- Subject: Re: About Dating Outside One's Group....
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- Organization: University of Nebraska at Omaha
- References: <1992Dec30.104358.12959@wetware.com>
- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 22:39:07 GMT
- Lines: 63
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- drieux@wetware.com (drieux, just drieux) writes:
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- >James,
-
- >prudence dictates that you back off on this one.
-
- >I will skip past my usual posting method and point
- >out that there is a lot of unintended irony in your
- >kivetch about 'religion.' You might take the time to
- >pause and check that you have not gored any of your
- >own sacred cows.
-
- An excellent observation, drieux. The problem is, prudence tends
- to fly out the window when matters of religion come up for discussion,
- so I doubt your observation will be appreciated, much less heeded!
-
- >When it comes to Core Values, it is prudent NOT to
- >go wandering a field in pursuit of 'romance.'
-
- If you are "playing the odds", and basing your opinion on observations
- that, in a sizable majority of these cases, it simply doesn't work out,
- then I'd have to say "definitely!". There are, however, a small number
- of cases in which such cross-matched Core Value romances *do* work
- out...
-
- >That someone else may have come to a position that they
- >hold a set of core values very distinct from your own
- >is no reason to go deriding them for advancing that
- >they have those core values, and that they are looking
- >for those core values in someone they wish to be most
- >deeply and intimately involved with.
-
- Hear, hear!
-
- >I may chide my lady friend from time to time, in private
- >and on the net, about her failure to understand some
- >specific point from my "well just EVERYONE knows" list
- >of details. But I would feel safe to say, that when we
- >get down to real core values, rather than implementation
- >specific details, we do NOT compromise. [1]
-
- Nor should the two of you---the intrinsic definition of a "core value"
- would seem to me to require (if not flat-out DEMAND) that no compromises
- be made.
-
- >May you be so fortunate, that you are able to come to
- >understand YOUR OWN core values, as well as to be able
- >to share them with someone special in your life.
-
- This could be the crux of the matter---maybe most of us don't have
- a really good fix on our personal core values, so it becomes difficult
- to the point of frustration in expressing them to our SO's, with
- predictable results: the short-circuiting and eventual burning-out
- of a potentially solid and long-lasting relationship.
-
- What the world needs is a good, inexpensive 300-amp Romantic fuse.
-
- And mandatory installation. ;-)
-
- ...T.R. Stone
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