Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84 (Fortune 01.1b1); site rhino.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!ihnp4!zehntel!hplabs!hpda!fortune!rhino!marcum 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 Article-I.D.: rhino.259 Posted: Thu Dec 13 13:40:54 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 16-Dec-84 09:17:30 EST References:Reply-To: marcum@rhino.UUCP (Alan M. Marcum) Organization: Fortune Customer Support Lines: 24 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 ...!{ihnp4, ucbvax!amd, hpda, sri-unix, harpo}!fortune!rhino!marcum