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From: moiram@tektronix.UUCP (Moira Mallison )
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: Just how far can friendship go?
Message-ID: <5485@tektronix.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 10-Jul-85 14:44:19 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jul 10 14:44:19 1985
Date-Received: Sat, 13-Jul-85 09:29:09 EDT
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Reply-To: moiram@tektronix.UUCP (Moira Mallison )
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Summary: 

In article <800@vax2.fluke.UUCP> cassidy@fluke.UUCP (Rion Cassidy) writes:
>My point here is that if you're 'snuggling' and hugging someone of the opposite
>sex, yet not having any sexual contact, this isn't just a close friend (like
>one of the same sex) and you're probably denying yourself of something you 
>really want.

It is just as possible that a platonic friendship becomes sexual because
it seems the only way to get the hugs and snuggles.   It seems that, for
whatever reason, your colleagues have been able to bypass that trap and
get what they wanted from the relationship.  Maybe *she* wasn't getting
the physical affection she needed in her marriage.  Just maybe her husband
understood that and trusted her to be truthful with him about the friend-
ship with your friend.  All sounds pretty healthy to me.

Moira Mallison
tektronix!moiram