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From: gregbo@houxm.UUCP (Greg Skinner)
Newsgroups: net.singles,net.women
Subject: boyfriends
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Date: Sun, 31-Mar-85 11:32:05 EST
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I was having a conversation with a couple of friends of mine on the subject of
women and boyfriends.  They seemed to think that most women would say that they
had a boyfriend, whether they did or didn't, because if they said they didn't
guys would think they were strange.  I haven't found that to be the case in
female friends that I have -- most of them who did not have boyfriends said that
they did not and were not ashamed of it (although perhaps unhappy).  They
claimed that by and large they were unable to find nice guys to have relation-
ships with.

I would like to open some discussion surrounding the following questions (direc-
ted to women, mostly, but available for comment by men).

Do you have a boyfriend?
Do you feel like you must have a boyfriend?
Did you ever say you had a boyfriend when you didn't?  Why?  Did you want others
to think you had one?
Do you find it difficult to meet nice guys? (apply your own definitions of nice)

Men may feel free to answer also, subsituting girl for boy when appropriate (no
flames please, you all know what I mean).

My friends were also saying that even if a woman had a boyfriend, that it didn't
necessarily mean that they wouldn't go out with other guys.  They were saying
that (1) they might have boyfriends because it is convenient to have one, (2)
the relationship may not be all that serious, and (3) they might have a boy-
friend so that they wouldn't be lonely.

I'd just like to know how some of you feel about these statements.
-- 
			... hey, we've gotta get out of this place,
    			    there's got to be something better than this ...

Greg Skinner (gregbo)
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