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From: wfi@rti-sel.UUCP (William Ingogly)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: Nominally Single???
Message-ID: <539@rti-sel.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 11-Nov-85 17:35:38 EST
Article-I.D.: rti-sel.539
Posted: Mon Nov 11 17:35:38 1985
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Reply-To: wfi@rti-sel.UUCP (William Ingogly)
Organization: Research Triangle Institute, NC
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Summary: 

In article <1134@jhunix.UUCP> ins_aeas@jhunix.UUCP (Earle A .Sugar) writes:

>I checked my statistics, and the divorce rate as far as I know still 
>hovers just under the 50% mark.  These people obviously weren't well enough 
>matched to stay together ...
>     When I made my first posting, I was actually referring more to 
>collegiate boy/girlfriend type relationships than marriage.  ...

Different perspectives. What you've got in net.singles is an age
spread from about 18 to about 40. Perhaps we need a Life-History line
in net.singles headers. :-)

>This depends strictly on your definition of common.  I seem to be expecting 
>the same thing in a matter of months that  the rest of the universe seems to 
>think of as occuring in years (100km and 100 light-years are both long 
>distances, depending on your frame of reference).  I am probably expecting 
>too much too soon, so I'll have to rethink my position on the entire matter.

It's a funny thing: when you're two years old fifteen minutes seems
like an eternity; when you're twenty two years old six months seems
like an eternity; but when you're near forty, time can't GO slow
enough. As a long-time lover of women, I've had a hell of a lot of
good female buddies, my share of infatuations and crushes, passionate
but superficial physical affairs, and a few serious SO-type
relationships. I understand your current impatience: I've been through
it myself. Don't worry, your love(s) will come along and you'll learn
from every one of them.
                              -- Cheers, Bill Ingogly