First of all, I wouldn't treat my friends differently, but I know there is people out there that would. It wouldn't help at gaining friends, either. Mainly this would hurt your family and work life.
Second of all, I'm not saying that if you aren't 100% sure a relationship is going to last forever you shouldn't do it. What I
am saying is if you're 100% sure a relationship
isn't going to work, you shouldn't do it.
And I'm not going to define love for you because that would take an entire essay to explain. What I will tell you though is there is a certain type of love you have for your family. This is, as we can agree,
usually different than the love you have for a partner.
Now, you are saying that a dating situation with your relative could arise if there was first "love" present.
One of the points brought up is that you could fall in love with a relative that you hadn't been raised with. So, this would be a case of "love at first sight". Do you believe in that?
The other option, would be love after getting to know them in a family way, which would contradict the above statement of a "family member you hadn't been raised with"
All of that aside, I think we're going to have to agree to disagree on this one. Just to clear things up, I don't think we should be burning people at the stake for this. That's not what I'm saying. In fact, I don't believe it should be illegal, seeing as how we have a so-called "secular" government. I'm just saying with all of the complications involved I would never do this, and if a close friend of mine was considering it, I'd give them a million reasons why they shouldn't and try to talk them out of it. If they went through with the decision, I wouldn't think of them and/or treat them any less respectably, it's their choice.
Post has been edited 1 time(s), last time on Apr 8 2010, 7:24 am by Leeroy_Jenkins.
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