Adult friendships

Urbane Guerrilla · 09-06-2008, 08:33 AM

That's pretty well known: singles, rightly or wrongly, get perceived by some of the marrieds (people bitch about their wives thinking like this about their not-yet-married buddies from earlier times) as disturbers of the marriage dynamic -- too much worrying about "Is that hottie over there going to draw hubby's eye, now that I'm older and ten pounds heavier and raising 2.3 kids?" This line of thought really eats at some people, and they write to the agony aunts columns about it.

Rational? Not very. Present anyway, you bet. It's down in the lizard brain where reproduction and aggression live.

09-06-2008, 08:33 AM	#1
Urbane Guerrilla Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Southern California Posts: 6,674	That's pretty well known: singles, rightly or wrongly, get perceived by some of the marrieds (people bitch about their wives thinking like this about their not-yet-married buddies from earlier times) as disturbers of the marriage dynamic -- too much worrying about "Is that hottie over there going to draw hubby's eye, now that I'm older and ten pounds heavier and raising 2.3 kids?" This line of thought really eats at some people, and they write to the agony aunts columns about it. Rational? Not very. Present anyway, you bet. It's down in the lizard brain where reproduction and aggression live. __________________ Wanna stop school shootings? End Gun-Free Zones, of course.

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