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From: debray@sbcs.UUCP (Saumya Debray)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: Mid-Life Crisis (really relationships)
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Date: Sun, 9-Feb-86 19:19:56 EST
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> Someone wrote that marrying someone you love isn't "throwing yourself
> away".  The problem is that there are some women who do throw away
> all autonomy and individuality in order to get married to the man they
> love.  I have met women who have suddenly quit school or a job in order
> to move in and live with a man ...

> ... some women feel really desperate to get married, whatever sacrifice
> it may take, and it's this attitude that Cheryl and others think is
> ridiculous.

Seems to me it's a matter of personal choice: after all, we _are_ talking
about adults!  Different people derive happiness from different things.
Isn't it rather presumptuous to claim exclusive access to some sort of
universal truth?

-- 
Saumya Debray
SUNY at Stony Brook

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