[jft]

Hey. It is Valentines day and I hope all you lovers are loving it up tonight.

I write because I am either an odd duck or maybe not unlike some of you. I had many predispostions to getting dp/dr but one thing I realized alongside everything else was that I never had a strong urge to get married, or to have a serious relationship. When these relatonsips inevitably happened becasue of social context, I always opted out because by then my symtpoms did not really lend themselves to a personal and intimate level, if you know what I mean. I kind of wanted love to happen, but symptoms thwarted working out the details.

I am single, never been married. Had many opportunities but could not find the necessity to make it happen.

I am asking if predispositional folks like me jsut don't have the normal drive that others do to find love and interpersonalness and intimacy becasue it may be inherant in his malady that intimacy and interpersonalness are tough to playout.

How bout you love birds, how was it for you? Did you need a mate? Did you long for it? When you found it how did you stay in it? Is love indeed a many splendored thing and I jsut missed it?

Well, time to go watch reruns of Cheers, by myself
jft

 

[bat]

i have no inclination to get married. don't really see the point. i'm not religious in the conventional sense of the word and don't feel the need for legal ties in the relationship. we've got a mortgage together though so tied that way. we like being together so thats enough for me :wink:

 

[Phill]

I feel a relationship could most probably only work with someone who has the same problems as me. (dp/dr, obsessive compulsive disorder, tourette's syndrome,) Can't see much happening with someone without these disorders.