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Topic: I just had a thought
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Mon 12/26/11 07:21 PM
"Complete opposites" may not be so different. They may be a very good fit. Where one person lacks a trait, the other person has it.

On the other hand, if you are exactly alike, you may not be able to stand each other.


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Mon 12/26/11 10:58 PM
Edited by navygirl on Mon 12/26/11 10:58 PM

Can complete opposites ever connect in any way? Friends or relationship? I wonder if it's possible.


It wouldn't work for me. Very had to be with someone lazy when I am so active. Hard to be with someone that is a homebody when I like to go out. Hard to be with someone that only eats junkfood when I eat healthy. Well, you get the idea of what I am trying to say; we would have too many conflicts. There would have to be some middle ground where we both could share some interests together.

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Tue 12/27/11 01:35 AM

Can complete opposites ever connect in any way? Friends or relationship? I wonder if it's possible.


Complete opposites in terms of personality traits etc, yes it is possible. Being in a relationship with someone with the same personality as me would be exhausting :smile:.

I don’t think I could be with someone that was my complete opposite in terms of values, morals, outlook on life etc.

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Tue 12/27/11 10:56 AM

Can complete opposites ever connect in any way? Friends or relationship? I wonder if it's possible.


Complements are not opposites.

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Tue 12/27/11 11:09 AM
Love and hate. Pleasure and pain. Proton and electron. Up and down.

All of these things are opposites of the other, and all of them have something in common with its opposite.

But when it boils right down to the bottom line, neither can exist without their opposite. All extremes seek balance.

So the question isn't whether opposites attract, but whether two people balance each other.

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Tue 12/27/11 11:30 AM

Love and hate. Pleasure and pain. Proton and electron. Up and down.

All of these things are opposites of the other, and all of them have something in common with its opposite.

But when it boils right down to the bottom line, neither can exist without their opposite. All extremes seek balance.

So the question isn't whether opposites attract, but whether two people balance each other.


:thumbsup:

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Tue 12/27/11 12:33 PM
I feel like when Im constantly questioning whether someone is friendship material or something more to it really doesn't feel like to me they are. So hard to believe to when they say things like "I get along with everyone...Im friends with mostly everyone I meet." So funny to me. I really don't know if I can put aside all the things about them that I disagree with. That would be hard, also it would feel like Im settling.

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Tue 12/27/11 01:04 PM
Edited by actionlynx on Tue 12/27/11 01:05 PM

I feel like when Im constantly questioning whether someone is friendship material or something more to it really doesn't feel like to me they are. So hard to believe to when they say things like "I get along with everyone...Im friends with mostly everyone I meet." So funny to me. I really don't know if I can put aside all the things about them that I disagree with. That would be hard, also it would feel like Im settling.


The key is that a person be opposite in complementary ways....ways that make you happy and feel like a better person for having them in your life, not ways that just tick you off. The vast majority of people we meet, be it in person or online, are not going to be good matches for us. The same can be said when choosing friends, although to a lesser extent.

Good matches help us center ourselves. When that happens, we feel better about ourselves because we are less prone to the extremes we dislike. And when we do swing to an extreme, that special person is often able to pull us back to ourselves once again, preventing us from doing something we already know we would regret later.

So, it's not about setting aside disagreements. It's about compatibility of opposites, not submission or domination. Compatible opposites balance each other, thereby making each person an equal.

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