From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!eagle!mhuxt!mhuxa!mhb5b!princeto!mckay Newsgroups: net.singles Title: married = dormant?!? Article-I.D.: princeto.135 Posted: Sat Apr 9 03:17:11 1983 Received: Sun Apr 10 01:44:07 1983 MSG FROM vm6160888 (please forward) I'm kinda stupid sometimes myself, but it surely seems to me that to make a lifetime commitment DOESN'T mean to "forgo, in advance, the possibility of growing at different rates or in different directions". I've never been in ANY relationship that didn't involve growing at different rates and in all kinds of different directions! In fact, the strongest, longest-lasting relationships have involved (and still do involve) the most growing. Perhaps I'm just an anachronism, but I feel lifetime marriage will be pleasantly applicable to me someday... and when it is, it will be because my partner and I want to keep in touch with each other, love and help each other as we BOTH grow!! a perpetual, irrational romantic, windy*