Posted by Declan on October 20, 2005, at 14:09:35
In reply to Re: romantic love » Declan, posted by alexandra_k on October 19, 2005, at 19:53:26
Hi Alex
For a start it wasn't called cheating. I'm not sure it was even talked about much. My mother's way of putting it to me (when I was 10?) was 'your father believes in the double standard, but I don't.' I can't imagine her saying or feeling that it was cheating. For a start cheating would be the wrong word because cheating is done in secret. It was painful for her, of course.
Around here (northern rivers NSW), in my son's class in the steiner school (entirely unrepresentative of anything but a desire to be at the cutting edge)6 out of 40 kids (young ones) lived with both biological parents.
I'll have to learn how to do that thing you do with the arrows.
Did you actually find the words soulmate in any fairy story? Princes and princesses are cool. As an Australian I find the mate thing makes me distinctly uneasy, John Howard notwithstanding. But I like souls, as in 'in that Russian town there were 20,000 souls before the famine.'
Declan
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