Posted by Deneb on February 25, 2006, at 13:12:20
In reply to On the other hand... » Deneb, posted by Tamar on February 25, 2006, at 9:52:12
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> My point of view is slightly different from Racer’s… I think you *are* experiencing real love.I agree. I think it's real love too. I think if there was a way to "see" what love is like in the brain using some sort of imaging, that my brain would show real love.
>But I agree with Racer that you don’t know much about Dr Bob… so the love you feel probably isn’t the kind of love a person feels for a long term partner or a very close friend.
I completely agree. I think the love I feel is more like the love I had for my stuffed toy friends or Hammie.
> Still, I think it’s love. I think it’s the sort of love people feel for a new friend or a new partner.
I don't really think that's the sort of love I feel. Dr. Bob is not new to me.
> And since you don’t seem to feel such intense feelings for other people in your life, I think it’s a healthy thing that you have come to love Dr Bob so much. Perhaps real-life love is a bit scary to you and perhaps Dr Bob represents someone safe: you can love him without getting involved in a very intimate relationship.
Yep. He's safe. He has *very* strict boundaries I found out. I think it'll be interesting to compare Dr. Bob with DocJohn on PsychCentral and think about why I don't love DocJohn, even though they are both administrators.
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