Happy Valentine's Day

[bertine]

I have only once had a Valentine, so I might be just a little bitter about this holiday*. However, here are some articles that are interesting.

Why we kiss

The case for settling for Mr. Good Enough



*Not really, I say I am bitter a lot but really I have a hard time staying bitter at anything.

Comments

Re: Mr Good Enough

[bertine.livejournal.com]

I have a lot of the same feelings about that article. I can't just settle either.

I think the assumption is that the nice guy would also be settling. That if you don't want to be alone and childless you will just pick someone and make it work. That is great if it was 100 years ago because that is how society was but now I can support myself and live life as I want.

I don't want to get married just because it is the thing to do or because I want to have children. I dated this guy for a few months because I just wanted to settle down and it was just so blah.

Re: Mr Good Enough

[eyelikebigbutts.livejournal.com]

why didn't you settle down with that guy? What if he wore a white lab coat to bed and whispered dirty things like natural languages, and syntactic and semantic rules, theories of computation and algarithms in your ear

Re: Mr Good Enough

[bertine.livejournal.com]

The guy I sort of dated? Because he was boring and would say things like "I guess I should cuddle you now" which pretty much sums up all the crappiness of that relationship.

The other guy you talk about wouldn't be as boring.

Re: Mr Good Enough

[eyelikebigbutts.livejournal.com]

:( you deserve to be cuddled and have your hair brushed and your feet massaged...

Re: Mr Good Enough

[bertine.livejournal.com]

someday maybe

Re: Mr Good Enough

[eyelikebigbutts.livejournal.com]

someday...:)