The Integrity of the Whole
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A frog is more than the makeup of legs, arms skin, and internal organs. Similarly, love is more than the sum of its parts. I posted on the mystery or intuitive recognition associated with romantic love on the website (“On Frogs“). Here I’d like to write about my own intuitive recognition of what I loved or found attractive in Jessica.
I was drawn to her emotional resilience. She gave me the impression of being sexually knowledgeable without being indiscriminate, and of being feminine without being too girly. She tends to be a bit socially anxious which I found kind of charming. She’s intelligent and good with language. She’s concerned about others’ feelings without being “too” nice (nice to the point of being boring). She’s psychologically minded. I can’t really verbalize what I found physically attractive about her but it’s definitely there — voice tone, body language, nonverbal expressions, smile. I couldn’t really think in words around her, could only fall back on instinct, intuition, the process of recognizing a complement to myself.
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Jan 21 2009
