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Do people like oneself exist? I have never met anyone with whom I agreed fully or shared everything. I can't imagine that one could, or that someone that smioa
by brnt 6y ago
Do people like oneself exist?
I have never met anyone with whom I agreed fully or shared everything. I can't imagine that one could, or that someone that smioar even exists. Maybe if you come from a small town and had all nonconformism beaten out of you? Even that sounds hard to imagine to me.
The paradox of living with someone as I have experienced it is that the larger the apparent difference initially, the more the existence of differences and the necessity of being prepared to expect the unexpected is. Ultimately any romantic relationship ends over incompatibilities that cant or wont be overcome, and in my experience the more similar we were, the more certain people were about gaps being too wide to bridge.
I'm married now with a foreign person, whom I met while in a third country, we've been together for over 7 years and while what you describe is always present and is sometimes tiring, the truth is that we also regularly discover how we have changed and 'infected' each other with habits and opinions. And that happens in any relationship: you grow towards each other, if you can and want to let it happen.
I therefore think it may in fact be easier when you are different: there is nowhere to hide and you need and are obviously prepared to deal with difference. When you are similarish, you might delude yourself into forgetting you are in fact not.
- jl2718 6y agoYou’re describing a fear of intimacy. It’s actually fear of rejection, or of self-rejection, like so many things. If you choose someone to avoid a faithful reflection of yourself, you won’t be upset at any dissonance. It does work though.
- brnt 6y agoYou say things without showing or proving them. They merely seem hollows words invented to fit a narrative constructed to achieve precisely what you accuse others of: making yourself feel comfortable with your imperfect choices.
- jl2718 6y agoSure. Regardless, it wasn’t a criticism. Your words seemed true and the situation common by my observation. There are some west Asian ‘third world’ cultures I have observed where marriage is not tied to any bond of intimacy or cohabitation, and now I see that as the direction of modern society as well. I’m not ready to make a value judgement on that. Maybe after a few lifetimes trying different pairing strategies.
- brnt 6y agoAt no point did I write about the absence of intimacy, cohabitation, or Asian 'third world' cultures. You're not making much sense.