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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: nihil who wrote (34387)	4/11/1999 4:15:00 PM
From: Ilaine	Respond to of 108807

Of course men (and women) like that exist. My father is one. He has been married three times, he is almost 67 so he has slowed down, but his third wife is 44. There is nothing to be done with men like that but accept them or leave them. You aren't going to change them. There are men (and women) who have never committed adultery, and wouldn't. There are men (and women) who find someone they prefer - possibly in every way, possibly in just some ways - to their spouse, and try to find a way to have both at the same time. I recently read a review of a moral philosopher, Isaiah Berlin, whom I had never heard of before. I haven't had a chance to get any of his books, but the review sounded like he was a very intelligent man. To paraphrase, perfection is impossible, all we can have is good, and sometimes two very good things are so incompatible that you have to choose between them. It is completely possible to love two men at the same time, and very painful to have to choose between them. I don't criticise anyone who finds himself wishing he could have his cake and eat it, too. Who knows? Maybe it will work!