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From: jonesg@ecn-pc.UUCP (Glynda Jones)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: Living with an SO
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Date: Mon, 9-Sep-85 11:09:59 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep  9 11:09:59 1985
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In article <249@whuts.UUCP> amc@whuts.UUCP (Andy Cohill) writes:
>> Better to live alone first mayhaps.
>> If you can do that, you probably won't come as near being a burr
>> under someone elses saddle.
>> Tom Frye
>
>Bingo! I had forgotten this first. At the risk of receiving some 
>nuclear powered flames, I am going to make a generalization of
>historic proportions.
>
>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).
>
>The great thing about living alone is that it forces you to come to
>terms with yourself; in other words, on all those cold winter nights
>that you spend alone, you have to discover just what it is that is
>so interesting about yourself, and convince yourself that it is
>true, even when no one else thinks you are interesting. (Why else
>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 Cohill
>{allegra|ihnp4}houxm!whuxl!whuts!amc


* Not a nuclear powered flame--rather low grade

Somewhat true.  The act of living alone has
been known to drive people into relationships
that no one in their right minds would touch
with a ten-foot-pole.  Or, the act of living
with people who don't seem to care about your
day-to-day welfare (goes on in a lot of
"families" ) can make someone seek the life of
a hermit ( very extreme reaction ). All in all,
I think it just depends...  Still, there is
something to what you say.
-- 



Glynda Jones Davis
(my friends call me Gigi--The Bursar calls me Glynda)
Biomedical Engineering Center
Purdue University
West Lafayette, Indiana  47907