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September 28

When Harry really did stay just friends with Sally

Filed under: issues,Psychology — posted by Breakup Girl @ 5:39 am

We’ve said it before, we’ll say it again: straight men and women can be just friends. We know this, because they can even be Just Friends, the boy-girl production company behind this super-enterprise. (And because we are of the camp who liked Scully and Mulder best without the LIKElike.) But perhaps no one has said it so eloquently, or newsworthily, than Juliet Lapidos over at Slate (h/t @DahliaLithwick, @DJDistracted), BFF of Jeff, who believes that today, straight male-female platonicness is at once normal and revolutionary.  She writes:

We were sure that we would never become romantic partners, that our relationship would always be placidly sexless. This has so far borne out: Excluding the summer when we first met and shared an awkward, pubescent kiss on Independence Day—and another, even more awkward moment on a trampoline shortly thereafter—there’s been no romance. Jeff and I have been friends for more than 14 years, without interruption. In our mid-twenties, we lived together for more than three years, during which period we’d watch movies late into the night and then go our separate ways, much like when we were kids. I find all this, at the personal level, unremarkable and unsurprising; the skepticism of outsiders strikes me as funny and narrow-minded. Yet from a historical perspective, my blasé attitude is all wrong: We are remarkable, in a way, and our relationship is not only surprising but radical.

Yes, radical. Consider the social history here, the dorm-room demographics: (more…)

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October 22

Heartburn

Filed under: Uncategorized — posted by Breakup Girl @ 7:10 am

Intending no insensitivity toward serious health issues and their affect on relationships: As Slate.com’s Dear Prudence notes in response to this advice-seeker (scroll down to “Pursue or Quit”): “I don’t think I’ve ever read a better description of kismet than: ‘We both suffer from the same rare intestinal disease.'”

Perhaps, though, they’re just on the “rare” end of an entire spectrum. As our tipster notes, “It’s very hard for me to distinguish between infatuation and indigestion.”

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