I'm not too sure that you need to think of 'sexual' in a 'tainted' way here. I often think of my friends as very beautiful both inside and out but not in a 'I want to have sex with you' type beautiful. Maybe the 'sexual' meant here was some type of freudian freakout meant to weird people out. I think it's interesting to work out why we are friends with some and not with others. Why is that person more 'attractive' to me that the other?
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Seriously? Was this person for real?
Or perhaps you are sexually attracted to the people you click with...
Hey Anon... Yep. Dead serious.
That person is in a position to see that played out. They were quoting (Philip?) Jensen.
Hey Mel... you're probably right - it's a little "Chicken and Egg"
... *sigh!*
that's yuck to think that every relationship is tainted. (Still not sure that I agree with the comment)
I'm not too sure that you need to think of 'sexual' in a 'tainted' way here. I often think of my friends as very beautiful both inside and out but not in a 'I want to have sex with you' type beautiful. Maybe the 'sexual' meant here was some type of freudian freakout meant to weird people out. I think it's interesting to work out why we are friends with some and not with others. Why is that person more 'attractive' to me that the other?
Hey Di,
Sadly, the quote was made in the "I want to have sex with you" kinda context. It worked ~ there was a little freaking.
I'm inclined to think as you do about attraction to my friends. But maybe I'll think differently when I've seen more fall-outs of Christian marriages.
As for making friends / being attracted to people, Gibbo had lots of insight:
"It's perverse, but we often take the most unhealthy ways of relating in our family and replicate them in other relationships"
Personally speaking, there are patterns of unhealthiness in my friendships that echo the dysfunctionalities in my family!
But pessimistic doesn't reign - because God can use even broken ways of relating for our good and edification.
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