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Friendship
    #14564064 - 06/05/11 10:40 AM (12 years, 8 months ago)

Here's the scenario. 

A man and woman meet.  They are interested and go out on a date.  They start to like each others company.  They are both intelligent and have been around the block with love affairs. They state to each other that the friendship must be the bedrock of any romantic affair.  They state to each other that should the affair end their friendship will not suffer. They will always be friends.

Several years down the road the love affair does not work out.  One of them states to the other that breaking up is so painful that even though they will always be friends they really can't bear to see the other person and so they cannot hang out.

Were they friends?

Discuss.


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Edited by Icelander (06/05/11 10:44 AM)

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Re: Friendship [Re: Icelander]
    #14564181 - 06/05/11 11:09 AM (12 years, 8 months ago)

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Icelander said:
Here's the scenario. 

A man and woman meet.  They are interested and go out on a date.  They start to like each others company.  They are both intelligent and have been around the block with love affairs. They state to each other that the friendship must be the bedrock of any romantic affair.  They state to each other that should the affair end their friendship will not suffer. They will always be friends.

Several years down the road the love affair does not work out.  One of them states to the other that breaking up is so painful that even though they will always be friends they really can't bear to see the other person and so they cannot hang out.

Were they friends?

Discuss.




Just what are you sayin' "been around the block".  I never understood that term.  What block are you referrin' to?

Then "down the road" after several years?  Wow that was a long highway.  All that time.  What was going on during the road trip?

TIA


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Re: Friendship [Re: LunarEclipse]
    #14564194 - 06/05/11 11:12 AM (12 years, 8 months ago)

Google is your friend.


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Re: Friendship [Re: Icelander]
    #14564207 - 06/05/11 11:15 AM (12 years, 8 months ago)

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Icelander said:
Here's the scenario. 

A man and woman meet.  They are interested and go out on a date.  They start to like each others company.  They are both intelligent and have been around the block with love affairs. They state to each other that the friendship must be the bedrock of any romantic affair.  They state to each other that should the affair end their friendship will not suffer. They will always be friends.

Several years down the road the love affair does not work out.  One of them states to the other that breaking up is so painful that even though they will always be friends they really can't bear to see the other person and so they cannot hang out.

Were they friends?

Discuss.




Well, it really depends from case to case, but I'd say that there can be friendship in the presence of these feelings. If one is accustomed to avoiding unpleasant scenarios, then, most likely, this is what they would do in this case too. It doesn't mean they don't carry genuine feelings of friendship. :shrug:


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Re: Friendship [Re: MushroomTrip]
    #14564218 - 06/05/11 11:17 AM (12 years, 8 months ago)

What's the point of "feelings of friendship" if there is no longer any contact?

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Re: Friendship [Re: Sleepwalker]
    #14564257 - 06/05/11 11:27 AM (12 years, 8 months ago)

Are you looking for an aswer that fits all the different personal motivations? :lol:


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Re: Friendship [Re: Icelander]
    #14564288 - 06/05/11 11:33 AM (12 years, 8 months ago)

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Icelander said:
Google is your friend.




I start there but Youtube is really my friend.  I would say Google is more like an associate.

Now, as to whether man and women who have "been around the block one more time" can "still be friends".

NO.

Next!!

Edit- "Were they ever friends"  Yea right and Jennifer Anniston is a virgin.  Right.

Edited by LunarEclipse (06/05/11 11:35 AM)

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Re: Friendship [Re: Icelander]
    #14564290 - 06/05/11 11:33 AM (12 years, 8 months ago)

I think if that's the case then it was probably a needy/addictive relationship. First you need to define what a real freind is though and I'm not sure how to do that.


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Re: Friendship [Re: MushroomTrip]
    #14564297 - 06/05/11 11:35 AM (12 years, 8 months ago)

Ok.  Were they friends? Possibly.

Are they still friends if there is no longer any contact between them? Not in my book.

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Re: Friendship [Re: Grapefruit]
    #14564309 - 06/05/11 11:38 AM (12 years, 8 months ago)

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I think if that's the case then it was probably a needy/addictive relationship. First you need to define what a real freind is though and I'm not sure how to do that.




The saddest part of all of this is the "let's still be friends" after moving from pseudo phreindship/lust into phucking and now dreaming some purity of relationship on a mutually giving level could possibly remain escapes me.

That and "let's still be friends" has to be the lamest laziest breakup non-breakup mindphuck ever. 

MOVE ON>


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Re: Friendship [Re: LunarEclipse]
    #14564327 - 06/05/11 11:43 AM (12 years, 8 months ago)

True... It's probably just a lie.


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Re: Friendship [Re: Grapefruit]
    #14564339 - 06/05/11 11:46 AM (12 years, 8 months ago)

Quote:

Grapefruit said:
True... It's probably just a lie.




Sometimes A Fantasy

It's Not The Real Thing

Like Coke

The Truth Lies In Between

The sheets

And the Ears



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Re: Friendship [Re: Icelander] * 2
    #14564673 - 06/05/11 01:20 PM (12 years, 8 months ago)

I think they were friends, yeah.

But feelings of friendship can change as you get to know someone more deeply. Someone who was a friend when you knew each other at one depth can become less and less appealing as a friend when you get to know them intimately.

And people change. Relationships especially change people. The friend before the intimate relationship may no longer exist a few years down the road. You are not the same person you were a few years ago. None of us is. Some couples converge as they change. Others (most?) diverge.

It's not necessarily anyone's fault. As far as I can tell, impermanence is the only permanent feature of the universe. I think that's sad, but there it is.


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Re: Friendship [Re: MushroomTrip]
    #14564764 - 06/05/11 01:56 PM (12 years, 8 months ago)

Quote:

MushroomTrip said:
Quote:

Icelander said:
Here's the scenario. 

A man and woman meet.  They are interested and go out on a date.  They start to like each others company.  They are both intelligent and have been around the block with love affairs. They state to each other that the friendship must be the bedrock of any romantic affair.  They state to each other that should the affair end their friendship will not suffer. They will always be friends.

Several years down the road the love affair does not work out.  One of them states to the other that breaking up is so painful that even though they will always be friends they really can't bear to see the other person and so they cannot hang out.

Were they friends?

Discuss.




Well, it really depends from case to case, but I'd say that there can be friendship in the presence of these feelings. If one is accustomed to avoiding unpleasant scenarios, then, most likely, this is what they would do in this case too. It doesn't mean they don't carry genuine feelings of friendship. :shrug:





I'm not sure I believe it. Remember they told each other nothing was going to effect the friendship. I'd say something did have an effect on the friendship.  Did they say what they really meant then?  Was there something else going on?


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" All that lives was born to die"-Anom.

With much wisdom comes much sorrow,
The more knowledge, the more grief.
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Re: Friendship [Re: Diploid]
    #14564781 - 06/05/11 02:02 PM (12 years, 8 months ago)

Quote:

Diploid said:
I think they were friends, yeah.

But feelings of friendship can change as you get to know someone more deeply. Someone who was a friend when you knew each other at one depth can become less and less appealing as a friend when you get to know them intimately.

And people change. Relationships especially change people. The friend before the intimate relationship may no longer exist a few years down the road. You are not the same person you were a few years ago. None of us is. Some couples converge as they change. Others (most?) diverge.

It's not necessarily anyone's fault. As far as I can tell, impermanence is the only permanent feature of the universe. I think that's sad, but there it is.




Do you think that they have an obligation to express that to each other as friends then?  Is saying the break up hurts too much when instead you mean I don't really like you as much any more  a sign of friendship?  Or maybe someone had some expectations that weren't met around the relationship aspect and when that blew away they realized they never really felt that friendly towards that person?


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" All that lives was born to die"-Anom.

With much wisdom comes much sorrow,
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Re: Friendship [Re: Grapefruit]
    #14564792 - 06/05/11 02:04 PM (12 years, 8 months ago)

Quote:

Grapefruit said:
True... It's probably just a lie.





Maybe so?  Can lovers be friends when the relationship dies for one person and not the other?  Maybe not.  If that's true then were was the friendship? Was there ever a friendship?


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" All that lives was born to die"-Anom.

With much wisdom comes much sorrow,
The more knowledge, the more grief.
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Re: Friendship [Re: Icelander]
    #14564930 - 06/05/11 02:41 PM (12 years, 8 months ago)

I'm not sure if all friendship isn't a kind of lie in the first place.

I will not go
prefer a feast of friends
to the giant family


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Re: Friendship [Re: LunarEclipse]
    #14564969 - 06/05/11 02:51 PM (12 years, 8 months ago)

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LunarEclipse said:
Quote:

Icelander said:
Here's the scenario. 

A man and woman meet.  They are interested and go out on a date.  They start to like each others company.  They are both intelligent and have been around the block with love affairs. They state to each other that the friendship must be the bedrock of any romantic affair.  They state to each other that should the affair end their friendship will not suffer. They will always be friends.

Several years down the road the love affair does not work out.  One of them states to the other that breaking up is so painful that even though they will always be friends they really can't bear to see the other person and so they cannot hang out.

Were they friends?

Discuss.




Just what are you sayin' "been around the block".  I never understood that term.  What block are you referrin' to?

Then "down the road" after several years?  Wow that was a long highway.  All that time.  What was going on during the road trip?

TIA





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Re: Friendship [Re: Icelander]
    #14564974 - 06/05/11 02:52 PM (12 years, 8 months ago)

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  If that's true then were was the friendship? Was there ever a friendship?




Things change. Can there ever be anything if it is not forever? Of course!


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Re: Friendship [Re: Grapefruit] * 1
    #14565052 - 06/05/11 03:08 PM (12 years, 8 months ago)

good friends have to give each other time and space
sometimes lots of space
it may take decades to savor the friendship
and growing apart can be excellent too.
the stories...
they can age well too.
or they can rot, and stink to hell, which is an art in itself.


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