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From: taylor@sdccsu3.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: some idle questions about relationships...
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Date: Sun, 5-Aug-84 19:31:04 EDT
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Posted: Sun Aug  5 19:31:04 1984
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	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

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