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From: jcp@osiris.UUCP (Jody Patilla)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: Living with an SO
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Date: Sun, 1-Sep-85 10:55:44 EDT
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Posted: Sun Sep  1 10:55:44 1985
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> NEVER get involved with a person that has not lived at least a 
> year by themselves, in their won apartment, without financial
> support from other sources (like parents).
> would you be home alone??)
> If you have always lived with family, roommates, SOs, etc, you are
> able to avoid this introspection entirely. And I think herein lies
> the roots of the women's lib. In the past, Women very rarely ever
> had the opportunity to live independently. They went straight from
> family, to dorm living, to marriage, and never had the opportunity
> to get to know themselves. It's no wonder they are pissed off....

	Andy's absolutely right and for other reasons he hasn't mentioned
as well. People who have never lived alone very often can't take care of
themselves ! It's not a pleasant surprise to discover that you're living
with a person who can't check the oil in the car, has never paid a bill,
doesn't know a teaspoon from a tablespoon and washes the dark clothes
in with the whites. Women are better about some of these things than men
(but not all, by any means) only because in a family situation, it's the
women who have to cook, clean, etc for their fathers and brothers.

-- 
jcpatilla

"The bland leadeth the bland and they both shall fall into the kitsch."