Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site sdcc3.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!sdcsvax!sdcc3!fritzz From: fritzz@sdcc3.UUCP (Flippin' fritzz) Newsgroups: net.singles,net.social Subject: friendships with SO's Message-ID: <2551@sdcc3.UUCP> Date: Thu, 13-Dec-84 14:09:02 EST Article-I.D.: sdcc3.2551 Posted: Thu Dec 13 14:09:02 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 15-Dec-84 02:51:03 EST References: <344@hercules.UUCP> <608@rayssd.UUCP> Organization: UCSD Brain Damage Control Lines: 30 Xref: watmath net.singles:4898 net.social:359 From an article on meeting parents: > SOs come and go; best friends and parents are for life. What if your best friend is your SO? I broke up with my SO about 2 months ago when she decided to start going out with another person. I don't see her quite as much as I used to, but I still enjoy a special relationship with her. We still are best friends, sharing secrets and all the other silly things that best friends do. In the mean time I have developed other relationships that I never had before, but the point I am trying to make is that my ex-SO was (and probably always will be) one of the best friends I ever had in my whole life. Now for the sad part. In the past two or three months I have witnessed several breakups. In about 90% of them there is no more contact between the two people who were once so close. Is it really possible to break off a relationship like that without remebering all the wonderful things that happened between two people? Or is it that I'm expecting people to develop something deeper than a mere physical attraction when they start "going out"? Obviously it's possible to continue a relationship after a relationship. What I'd like to know is why it is so rare, and why people don't try to do it more often. -- ihnp4--\ fritzz the Zebra decvax--\ akgua----\ Take this brother, may it serve you well. dcdwest---\ kgbvax-----\ ucbvax-------- sdcsvax -- sdcc3 -- fritzz