maria gostrey Posted August 16, 2010 Posted August 16, 2010 people fall in love and engage in the most intimate and exclusive kind of relationship. then they break up. and then they part take in a series of steps to ensure complete and utter erasure of said relationship. it seems oxymoron-ic. i have never quite been able to wrap my head around it.no other relationship seems to end on such estranged terms. parents fight with their children but it is not customary for either party to routinely erase and forget the existence of each other. friendships fade but neither side vows to never see the other person again. so why is it that the most intimate and exclusive relationships, romantic ones, warrant such utter destruction when they end?
Feelin Frisky Posted August 16, 2010 Posted August 16, 2010 ....so why is it that the most intimate and exclusive relationships, romantic ones, warrant such utter destruction when they end? If I had to pick one reason it is because the feeling one gets when one realizes he or she has actually betrayed him or herself by following full-tilt the deepest and most entangling impulse without real reason makes one not only angry and/or disappointed with the selection but angry and usure about the self in the aftermath. It's a big thing, betrayal. It reverberates in the mind and emotions and causes one to put one's self on trial.
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