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From: pso@utastro.UUCP (P Samuel Odoms)
Newsgroups: net.motss
Subject: friendship marriages and other
Message-ID: <193@utastro.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 25-Apr-84 21:29:55 EST
Article-I.D.: utastro.193
Posted: Wed Apr 25 21:29:55 1984
Date-Received: Fri, 27-Apr-84 04:39:41 EST
Organization: UTexas Astronomy Dept., Austin, Texas
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I guess that in a way, my marriage is a friendship marriage.  After we met
my {partner,lover,spouse,whatever-word-you-like-best} has become my closest
friend and confidant.  We do not have sex with anywhere near the frequency
that the we had the first two years.  We feel very comfortable (Oh, how the
sixties/early seventies hated that idea) with each other.  It is my opinion
that in the best marriages sex becomes secondary and friendship becomes
primary.  Those couples who have sex as primary probably do not have much
else in common.

Well, enough for now.  Maybe I'll expound more later.

Sam

PS - To all of you out there who have sent me mail and have not gotten
replies: the answer(s) are 1) you don't deserve an answer (I got one nasty
one line note), 2) our VAX has this annoying habit of thinking that it
is actually a yo-yo (up and down, up and down, ...), 3) I have a LOT
of problems sending mail out of this place - simple little automatic
replies in the mail system frequently generate erroneous addresses or
something.  Out disk systems are so full all the time (98 - 99%) that
once I read a letter I've got to delete it.  The mail address is usually
caught a day or two latter down the line and then ....  Oh, well.