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Originally Posted by merleniau
Yes, but couldn't the stress of being on a desert island also provide great amounts of time to think, talk, and forgive silly actions? In my mind, survival would probably bring two people together.. unless they were on Survivor, of course.  |
I'm glad you've found someone to handle the good AND bad with.
Stress tends to bring out the darker, normally repressed stuff in people. Having to locate food every day, establishing reliable housing, defense from predators... these could very easily lend to a deeply stressful environment. We're all kinda coddled in our homes and apartments, cut off from the things our ancestors had to deal with. The stresses now—money and work problems, tax problems, getting stuck in traffic—must be vastly different than the stress one feels when there are predatory animals around and the fact that you have to locate clean water instead of just popping over to Safeway. It would, imho, take an incredibly strong and open relationship to deal with that. I'm fairly secure in my current relationship, but I don't know if I'm THAT secure.
The life span thing is a good point, though. I hadn't considered that.