Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbatt!ihnp4!houxm!mtuxo!mtgzz!eme
From: eme@mtgzz.UUCP (e.m.eades)
Newsgroups: soc.singles
Subject: I would be better for you (Re: Treat 'em like dirt boys)
Message-ID: <2193@mtgzz.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 13-Oct-86 20:44:26 EDT
Article-I.D.: mtgzz.2193
Posted: Mon Oct 13 20:44:26 1986
Date-Received: Tue, 14-Oct-86 06:46:03 EDT
References: <56@ritcv.UUCP> <2181@mtgzz.UUCP> <8015@sri-spam.ARPA>
Organization: AT&T Information Systems Labs, Middletown NJ
Lines: 19

>How many of you have been in the situation where someone who you were
>attracted to happened to be going out with someone else, and in your
>opinion, they were treating that person like dirt?  I used to feel that
>way.  Part of that feeling was jealousy.  I used to say things like "XXX
>treats her like dirt ... if *I* were going out with her *I* would never
>do that!"

Funny, once someone used that line on me.  (It didn't work) He was
a good platonic friend who was lonely, and at the time I was breaking
up with my boyfriend (mostly because I let him take me too much for
granted).  He decided that he wanted to fall in love and I was available.
Eventually he got to the point (this is when it finally penetrated
that he want to be more than "just friends") when I'd complain about
something, he'd say "I wouldn't do that" or "I know you deserve better
than that" or some such comment.  The funny thing is now he having
the identical problem with his girlfriend because he was taking her
too much for granted.  So much for his "I would NEVER do that".

-Beth Eades