... would you be willing to move to a distant country knowing there would be little chance of seeing your friends or family again? [Question from The Book of Questions, by Gregory Stock, Ph.D.]

-- ann monroe (monroe@chorus.net), March 09, 2000

Answers

When you love a person enough you are willing to do anything for them; I'm talking out of experience. It is a personal matter though, you have to decide if the one person means enough to you to give up the rest of your relationships. Sometimes it is, and sometimes it is not. There is nothing wrong with loving somebody, but not enough to want to leave everything for them; there is nothing shameful about it either, people HAVE to be honest with each other in their relationships if they want to find any kind of happiness, even the slightest dishonesty breeds resentment guilt and anger.

-- Matt (fourteetwo@usa.net), April 13, 2000.

I moved 10,000 miles from Melbourne to New York, and no regrets so far. So, yes :) Love is much more important than where I'd have to travel to make it happen.

-- David Dyte (daviddyte@hotmail.com), November 07, 2002.