Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site pucc-h Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!CS-Mordred!Pucc-H:aeq From: aeq@pucc-h (Jeff Sargent) Newsgroups: net.singles Subject: Re: Patti's response to depressed ramblings Message-ID: <1683@pucc-h> Date: Wed, 16-Jan-85 23:51:20 EST Article-I.D.: pucc-h.1683 Posted: Wed Jan 16 23:51:20 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 18-Jan-85 02:23:18 EST References: <620@homxa.UUCP> Organization: the PIRATE ship Lines: 16 From Patti Carstensen (homxa!carson): > I have a VERY hard time saying "I love you" because I internally equate it > with a demanding sort of "I need you" which I don't much like Gee.... I have the opposite problem. I have a very hard time saying "I love you" because I equate it with "I am agreeing to do things for you, to support you (not financially [not yet, at least], but emotionally and spiritually), to give to you, to give you some power over me" -- and that is something I have a tough time with; I especially don't like that last one, since it seems to be the nature of people to misuse, abuse, overuse power. -- -- Jeff Sargent {decvax|harpo|ihnp4|inuxc|ucbvax}!pur-ee!pucc-h:aeq "Grate on the Lord, get on His nerves, and you shall get what you want...." :-)