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From: marcum@rhino.UUCP (Alan M. Marcum)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: How single is single?
Message-ID: <259@rhino.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 13-Dec-84 13:40:54 EST
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Posted: Thu Dec 13 13:40:54 1984
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In article  features@ihuxf.UUCP (M.A. Zeszutko) writes:
>
>	Do you think the experience of being single is different
>for those with SOs and those without?  If so, how?
>            ...being single and without an SO can make one really
>question one's very existence.  Being single and with an SO can
>hammer home the point about loneliness creeping in at the
>oddest times.
>
>aMAZon @ AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL; ihnp4!ihuxf!features

Having been without an SO, with an SO, and with a POSSLQ (or
PSSSLQ? PASSLQ? I'll just use POSSLQ) who was an SO, I think
you raise an interesting question.  The SPOSSLQ (Significant
POSSLQ) situation had much of what I expect marriage has --
including many of the constraints.  A non-POSSLQ SO doesn't have
the moment-to-moment, every day stuff -- we tend to get together
for fun stuff, not for all the garbage.  And, without an SO, you
handle it all alone -- but with no constraints, either.

Which do I prefer?  Stay tuned.................
-- 
Alan M. Marcum		Fortune Systems, Redwood City, California
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