From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!npoiv!hou5f!ariel!orion!lime!we13!otuxa!lsk Newsgroups: net.singles Title: When relationships break up hard, a couple of other causes Article-I.D.: otuxa.206 Posted: Tue Mar 8 08:29:35 1983 Received: Wed Mar 9 05:22:54 1983 Just an addition to the comments rlgvax!thekid made regarding " when relationships break up hard". I think that someone being real nasty and dishonest are not the only reasons. More times than I would care to remember, I have had a relationship break up hard because I had gotten more involved with the person than they had gotten with me. (And this could be a side issue of pushing to hard or trying to hard I am sure). It seems to me that in any relationship one person almost always cares more for the other. After all, someone had to START things, so, by definition, they are showing the stronger interest. Ideally, I suppose, the recipient of this attention may feel mutually attracted and both their levels of interest may just climb at an even pace. In reality, it seems that one person is always the more interested of the two, this leading, I think, to the "inevitable" nasty break up, not because of DIS-honesty, but due to honesty, as in "Look, we should only be friends." Larry S. Kaufman Western Electric Network Software Center Lisle Illinois