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Can Steve Just Be Killed Off?
Surgoshan:
Allow me to present you with a graph:
The opening phase of a relationship is sometimes known as the "honeymoon" or "hands-on" phase. In short, the other can do no wrong and there's a heck of a lot of sexing. The sexing dies down a little bit, but there is a relatively steady amount (averaging the anniversary highs with the monthly lows).
When a man can have sex... he does not choose to go bowling instead*. Friends are not forgotten, nor do they disappear, but they do tend to fall by the wayside, at least a little.
Things are made easier when the GF was part of the dude's social group before sexing began. This wasn't exactly the case for Marten. He was friends with Steve. Then he met Faye. Then she moved in. Then he met Faye's boss. Then he moved. Then he got fired. Then he started going out with Dora. In the meantime, Steve met a girl. Then he broke up with that girl. Then he met another girl. These guys... their lives are tumultuous. Like whoa. I'm surprised Marten still has Steve's number!
* Tell me you spend as much time with your friends during the honeymoon as you did before you met the girl. Just try and say it.
-Karamazov-:
I have spent just as much time, if not more, with my good male friends during the "Honeymooning" phase. Though, in your defense I currently live with 2 of those best friends and the other is my neighbor.
JReynolds:
Two minor points, of little value:
1) A wise man said: 'if you put five cents into a jar every time you have sex in the first two years of a long-term relationship, and take 25 cents out of the jar every time you have sex after that, the jar will never run out of money'.
a) Not sure about the truth of this one-- haven't been in a relationship that has lasted more than 2 years
2) One of the things that I recall from the excellent book What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew: From Fox Hunting to Whist-The Facts of Daily Life in Nineteenth-Century England is that when a man married, it gave him the excuse to end any male friendships that he didn't want any more. If he continued being friends with someone, that was OK; if he didn't call on them or otherwise treated them as strangers, that was socially acceptable behaviour.
Rocketman:
--- Quote from: JReynolds on 16 Nov 2008, 09:18 --- a) Not sure about the truth of this one-- haven't been in a relationship that has lasted more than 2 years
--- End quote ---
I read that the chemicals in the brain that create the lovey-dovey sensation stop being produced after two years.
Basically, it's the primitive part of your brain going "What?! It's been two years and you still haven't reproduced? Something must be wrong with her! Back off, we'll find another." :-P
Siibillam-Law:
In one of the quite recent story arcs, Marten has an argument with Dora and then he meets up with Steve and they all have a good time, and both the story and newspost talk about how long it's been since they've last seen Steve. Just cos we ain't seeing im don't mean he isn't going to stick around. Right now, with the current Sven/Faye Dora's money issues, Wil/Penny stories there isn't that much room for Steve. Wait till the right opportunity comes around. I'm not sure I like what Jeph did with that strip, to be honest, cos now it's brought Steve back to his drinking and shit, when he could've played a large role in another arc, had people not emailed the shit out Jeph
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