just a head's up that you named your folks' locati...

2007-05-19T09:09:00.000-04:00

just a head's up that you named your folks' location.

I worry about friends who are in a position where ...

2007-05-18T16:26:00.000-04:00

I worry about friends who are in a position where they think that their life is incomplete without a partner (usually, a man). At least, if C is fixated on one particular person, she's less likely to take up with any old jerk that comes along.

I don't know why, but it's immensely enjoyable to ...

2007-05-18T15:17:00.000-04:00

I don't know why, but it's immensely enjoyable to read about your spring cleaning.

Re. C (since I said in comments that she seemed stalker-ish): what's disturbing about the collage thing is that it *isn't* totally crazy, in our culture. Women are often encouraged to engage in such desperately obvious man-seeking. Witness sitcoms through the ages, where all women over thirty (or younger) are frantic for husbands, and all kinds of bizarrely obsessive behavior--which would be perceived as scary if engaged in by men--are indulged, or even framed as normal. It's offensive and upsetting. In some ways, C just seems to be participating in a pretty mainstream construction of female behavior. And, to agree with your earlier post, it seems clearly related to the pervasive fantasy of the "soul mate."*

*(I happen to be in an excellent relationship with a splendid person, and I have no idea what a "soul mate" is. So I'm convinced that it doesn't exist.)

Okay, that's enough from me. Keep cleaning!

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just a head's up that you named your folks' locati...

I worry about friends who are in a position where ...

I don't know why, but it's immensely enjoyable to ...