Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site sdccsu3.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!houxm!hogpc!houti!ariel!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!hplabs!sdcrdcf!sdcsvax!sdccsu3!taylor From: taylor@sdccsu3.UUCP Newsgroups: net.singles Subject: some idle questions about relationships... Message-ID: <2154@sdccsu3.UUCP> Date: Sun, 5-Aug-84 19:31:04 EDT Article-I.D.: sdccsu3.2154 Posted: Sun Aug 5 19:31:04 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 9-Aug-84 03:29:49 EDT Organization: University of California at San Diego Lines: 35 Hi there! (just thought I'd start out cheery) Lately some questions about relations have arisen in my head, and I thought that perhaps the collective intelligence (if any (ha)) of this group could put them to rest.... 1) Do relationships have to be mutually beneficial to be 'good'? (I use this word for lack of a better one. Please answer beyond the superficial stupidity of using such a loaded word!) 2) Has anyone ever correlated behavioural changes with the imminent breakup of a relationship? (Other than, say, intense loathing and physical nausea in the others presence) (;-)) 3) I know of a friend who 'broke up' a relationship by changing the way that each person thought of the other, so that (s)he could get together and form a relationship with one of the partners...I find it hard to condemn this, as the maxim 'nothing that wouldn't occur will' (??) is true: if their relationship (the original) was strong and 'good' (augh, that word again!) they wouldn't have broken up. Just the same, I wonder about it. Does anyone feel that this logic is true/false? i.e. Are there cases where a relationship collapses IN SPITE OF it's strength? Why? 4) (to lighten the mood) What flavour ice cream do blind people typically prefer? Why? Trying to gain enlightenment, Dave Taylor ---------------- "Submitted for your approval..."