Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site rti-sel.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!mcnc!rti-sel!wfi 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 Date-Received: Thu, 14-Nov-85 07:44:48 EST References: <1071@trwrdc.UUCP> <490@rti-sel.UUCP> Reply-To: wfi@rti-sel.UUCP (William Ingogly) Organization: Research Triangle Institute, NC Lines: 28 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