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From: gtaylor@lasspvax.UUCP (Greg Taylor)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: second tries
Message-ID: <353@lasspvax.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 16-May-85 10:42:39 EDT
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Posted: Thu May 16 10:42:39 1985
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In article <2847@sdcc3.UUCP> fritzz@sdcc3.UUCP (fritzz) writes:
>Does anybody out there have any experience or ideas on restarting a
>relationship once it has been broken up?

Uh, yes. With my wife, in fact. I was involved in a fairly sorry version
of a relationship with her in the mid-late seventies that (with a little
help from her parents "active" advice) broke off before it had time to
blow itself to smithereens. I then didn't see her (or even attempt it) for
something on the order of about 3 years. When next I ran into her, she was
engaged to another man (though the relationship had some problems of its own),
so we saw each other only in social situations where there was no chance of
any remotely romantic connection. When that relationship blew up, she was a
bit hesitant about seeing *anyone*, and all I did was teach her to drive in
this '75 Chevy Impala PT boat station wagon. She was going out with about 4
other men at the same time. Anyway, the relationship had a good chance to
grow and deepen a bit freed of the constraints of romantic involvement (we
had a chance to discover that we *enjoyed* each other's company), and a bit
of space to sort out our respective versions of what happened, and what 
occurred in the interim period. I'm still a bit surprised at how easy it
was to be forgiving-once I had a chance to see things from her side of it.>
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