I'm kind of the opposite, too; I've always wanted to be in love, always wanted to be part of "Benet & ". In fact, I guess I'm greedy enough to want to be an operand of multiple ampersands, which raises some interesting issues just for typography. Hence resorting to graph theory. :)
On the other hand.. I'm alright with losing love (though I never want to lose friendship).
Oh, man. It was only this year that I really managed to thoroughly break a promising new friendship by pursuing a romantic relationship. Slowly I'm putting it back together, with a lot of false starts, but it may not be the same thing it would have been, had I kept my feelings to myself. And yet, short-lived though it was, I'd have missed some amazing things. Hard to say what I should have done. But having the connection drop to nearly nothing is way, way worse than going back to Just Friends would have been.
Erm, which might be kind of orthogonal to your point, beyond being an "I hear you, this is what it relates to in my experience".
And I care about you, also, though of course we are still in reasonably early stages of getting to know one another.
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on 2009-01-22 11:52 pm (UTC)On the other hand..
I'm alright with losing love (though I never want to lose friendship).
Oh, man. It was only this year that I really managed to thoroughly break a promising new friendship by pursuing a romantic relationship. Slowly I'm putting it back together, with a lot of false starts, but it may not be the same thing it would have been, had I kept my feelings to myself. And yet, short-lived though it was, I'd have missed some amazing things. Hard to say what I should have done. But having the connection drop to nearly nothing is way, way worse than going back to Just Friends would have been.
Erm, which might be kind of orthogonal to your point, beyond being an "I hear you, this is what it relates to in my experience".
And I care about you, also, though of course we are still in reasonably early stages of getting to know one another.