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littlelotte ([personal profile] littlelotte) wrote2009-02-25 12:52 am
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For anybody looking for something to write about...

I had a random person IM me on AIM. They asked me the following question, and I would really actually like to see my f'list answers to it:

What makes a relationship a relationship, besides sex? How is it different from a friendship?

I was asleep when the IM came, so I never responded, but once I'm finished with my current streak of "stuff to get done ASAP for work" I'll probably piece my own answer together.

[identity profile] vox-diabolica.livejournal.com 2009-02-25 07:59 am (UTC)(link)
You'd feel guilty if you slept with somebody else.

It's why polyamorous relationships aren't really relationships.

(Anonymous) 2009-02-25 10:07 am (UTC)(link)
You know, "you know" souds like high school kids or grand da.
STOP using it!!!!

PS You can still use it here at LJ.

[identity profile] physicsduck.livejournal.com 2009-02-25 02:56 pm (UTC)(link)
Emotional Investment, and Intimacy.

[identity profile] littlelotte.livejournal.com 2009-02-25 02:58 pm (UTC)(link)
See, I disagree with this. I have just as much emotional investment and intimacy with extremely close friends of mine. Granted, the intimacy may be of a different type, but the strength of the intimacy is just as deep and strong.

[identity profile] spherulitic.livejournal.com 2009-02-25 03:09 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't think there is a difference, except the magnitude of the present of the person in your life. It's the same sort of thing, just a matter of intensity.