Couplethinking

[lucky_kari <lucky_kari@yahoo.ca>]

Elkins, you know that I am a pretty serious shipper. I can't help it. 
The moment I see two people who might do well together, I want to 
pair 'em up. How this sits with the fact that I haven't the slightest 
desire to pair myself up, I do not know. Perhaps I should take 
the "Elkins course to non-shipping" since I'm nto sure this instinct 
is healthy. 

Anyway, as you also know, I've also been reading Lewis's "The Four 
Loves" recently, in relation to our Crouch discussions, and was very 
struck by his introduction of Friendship, and how modern society does 
not regard it as a real love. 

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "ssk7882 <skelkins at a...>" 
> I strongly suspect that what people *really* mean when they say
> that we are "different" is that they don't believe that we can
> possibly really care about each other at all.  They're just far
> too polite to come right out and say so.
> 
> Well...except for that one person who did, of course.  There's
> always one of those, isn't there?

<snickers>

My parents are very much individuals, I'll tell you. Oh, of course, 
they're on the same wavelength in a lot of ways. That would be 
because they're very good friends. However, they don't even have the 
same political views often. And my mother commits the dreaded sin of 
taking me to the Opera, and not my father, when she has tickets, 
because I like that sort of thing, and he doesn't. People seem to 
think this is a sign of something bad, though they can't much doubt a 
marriage of 21 years which has produced eight children and in which 
the couple seemsto be having so much fun. 

> Heh.  Not to mention those prizes that Tabouli mentioned: dinner
> for two, vacations for two, airfare for two.  All of which means
> that if, like me, you live with more than one Significant Other
> (ugh!), you find yourself rather hoping that you *won't* win
> one of them, just to avoid the issue of deciding which two people
> are going to get to enjoy the benefit.

My pet peeve is "Family Trips for Four." My mother really doesn't 
want to win any of those. 

>I 
> mean, for heaven's sake!  Did Paul get *laid* on the Road To 
> Damascus? 

So that's your problem with LOLLIPOPS, is it?

Eileen