Re: A woman who dated a married man

Stephanie wrote:
> "krzgirl" <krzgirl@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
>
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> On Jan 4, 3:47 pm, "Bill in Co" <surly_curmudg...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> wrote:
>> krzgirlwrote:
>>>> Ha! This is a conversation that happens in here from time to time.
>>>> What your statement means is that YOU are capable of anything,
>>>> depending on the cir***stances. I'm sorry that you don't know how you
>>>> would react under certain cir***stances; some people do know.
>>>> --
>>>> Lauri in WA
>>
>>> I do not believe that at all.
>>
>> We're aware of that, but you're wrong. It's just not in your sphere of
>> understanding, because you have probably never met or hung around such
>> people.
>
> I would be really interested in knowing how you KNOW I am wrong.
>
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> No more interesting, I suppose, than how you know that folks who believe
> they do know how they would react under certain cir***stances or find it
> dimini****ng unlikely that they would "wind up" in such cir***stances
would
> do. It is clearly unprovable. When we are dead we will know. Maybe.
>
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> I believed it when I said it, and I still believe it. Forty five years
> of life (and talking with many people) have taught me this, not just
> this affair. I also have the concurrence of some mental health
> professionals and "healthy" people. So, what qualifies you to be the
> bottom line on this? What makes me wrong and you right?
>
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> She has her experience. I have mine. You have yours. There is no
external
> arbiter of who is right. She belives herself to be right. You beleive
> yourself to be right. I believe myself to be right. I am the only one
who
is
> right, of course. As I always am.
>
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>
> I will also go
> ahead and say, what qualifies me to be the bottom line on this, and
> answer it, nothing, but at least I admit that. You don't seem to think
> or admit that you could be wrong.
>
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> I know you are not replying to me. Since I have also said that I would
never
> have an affair, let me be clear on this point. I could be and often am
> wrong. I have been and will be immoral. For the record, my claim is only
> that I am of ridiculously low, as to be negligible, likelihood to have
an
> affair as to be able to say that I would never do it.
>
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>
> After all this discussion I still conclude that the right
> cir***stances in life can lead anyone to do anything.
>
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> This is only true if you believe that cir***stances HAPPEN TO a person.
And
> while it is true that being hit by a bus could lead to all sorts of
> behaviors, one does not have an affair just up and happen to you. Your
MM
> did not just up and "fall in love." I was walking down the street one
day
> and oh my god I fell into love!

No, it dropped down out of the clear blue sky, and "I just couldn't
control
myself".