Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site uwmacc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!mhuxn!mhuxr!ulysses!gamma!epsilon!zeta!sabre!petrus!bellcore!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!uwvax!uwmacc!demillo From: demillo@uwmacc.UUCP (Rob DeMillo) Newsgroups: net.singles Subject: Re: re sex problem Message-ID: <1419@uwmacc.UUCP> Date: Sat, 24-Aug-85 01:16:24 EDT Article-I.D.: uwmacc.1419 Posted: Sat Aug 24 01:16:24 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 26-Aug-85 01:02:41 EDT References: <1296@hound.UUCP> <5290001@acf4.UUCP> <140@unc.unc.UUCP> <256@gymble.UUCP> <1828@reed.UUCP> Organization: UWisconsin-Madison Academic Comp Center Lines: 52 Lady Godiva asks: > > I know that I posted something about this before, but I'm > intrigued. Is the general concensus out there that living alone is > unnatural, or at the very least, not preferable? > (Lady Godiva) Oh, of course living alone isn't unnatural...unnatural implies freakish to me. (An example, you ask? Hmmm...let's see: unnatural is watching the moon rise from behind your sofa....) Anyway, speaking purely for myself, the desire to live alone is quite strong, but it can be quenched quite unexpectedly. For instance: (a) I lived with roommates (male and female) - I didn't like it, rather live alone. (b) Lived with an XSO - I didn't like it, rather live alone. (c) Lived alone - I liked it. Wanted to keep it that way. (d) Currently living with my SO - I like it. I like it better than living alone... Why did (d) occur? Well, it wasn't merely that my roomy is my SO, since I've lived with an SO before. It has more to do with what my SO is like as a person, and how that person interacts with me. We get along splendly, never any dirty dishes waiting to be washed, never any dispute about stereos, garbage take-out, lights while sleeping, etc etc etc... It wasn't that I liked living alone, it was that my personality didn't get along with most of the other people I lived with. That is not unnatural either...it's very hard to mesh two personalities together with little or no friction. -- --- Rob DeMillo Madison Academic Computer Center ...seismo!uwvax!uwmacc!demillo "...That's enough, that's enough! Television's takin' its toll. Turn it off, turn it off! Give me the remote control! I've been nice! I've been good! Please don't do this to me! I've been nice, turn it off, I don't wanna hav'ta see... ...'The Brady Bunch!'"