>>I don't think I'm a narcisist, but then I'd probably be the last to know. It's not that I love myself, it's my freedom I love.
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>>I want to be able to come home in the evening and have my time to myself to do whatever. If I want to sit at the computer for an entire day, I don't want somebody tellling me I should be doing something else. If I want to go to a ballgame, I don't want somebody telling me I'm supposed to have dinner with relatives.
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>But with a partner you love, you might find that what you want to do changes. In a good marriage, you give and take and accommodate and it's worth it because it makes you both happy.
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Exactly. That's why I never wanted to marry. I guess it's a chance I just didn't care to take.

>As for relatives, we all have 'em. <s>
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>Tamar

I have lots of them, and I don't really mind them - as long as they leave me be. ;)

Truth is, when I was a kid, I felt very diferently about it. I loved getting together with the relatives. I guess when I started to be able to make my own time for things I wanted to do, I began to resent, in some small way, others intrusions into that time.

You can't begin to imagine how I feel about telemarketers and the Jehovah's Witnesses. ;)