CaringandReal
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ORIGINAL: Venatrix ... I see nothing wrong with bringing up the topic fairly early on, if it's in a "for instance" sort of way. Why waste time getting involved with someone if it turns out that neither of you has any interest in relocating, and this is important to the people involved? Even if the sub felt that it was too early to discuss something like that, going off on a wild rant is not the way to handle it. Neither do I find anything wrong with that. Someone I was emailing with once asked a lot of very similar questions in the second email, I think. Could I relocate, could I do my work offsite, did I rent or own and could I get out of my lease if I had to, did I have other ties or obligations that kept me in my locale, etc. He was just establishing practical compatibility very early, and I didn't mind the questions in the least. I quite understood the sense of doing this before feelings started to run too hot or deep. Maybe I would have thought it odd if if there hadn't been such a strong connection in the first email, but I doubt that I would have responded the way that that guy did. Quite frankly his response to QueenPenelope's hypothetical question seemed nutty as a fruitcake to me.
< Message edited by CaringandReal -- 11/27/2009 4:23:04 PM >
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