[fr_freak]

What's the difference between clinging and commitment? From what I can tell, they are indistinguishable except that clinging is bad and should never occur and commitment is good and should always occur.

One need not read farther than this to see that this guy is a complete idiot. This is a Ph.D. who writes an article based on the premise that his own inability to distinguish between the meanings of two entirely different words constitutes an infallible proof.

Hey, Dr. Retard, here is the difference between clinging and commitment:

I marry a woman and every time she wants to leave the house I ask her where she's going and how come she doesn't want me to come. That's clinging.

Or, I marry a woman and we argue a lot and I don't always approve of what she does and says, plus the pretty neighbor next door keeps hitting on me, but I am resolved to stay married and faithful to my wife forever. That is commitment.

[tired&retired]

Bingo.... Doesn’t take a PhD in psychology to figure that one out.

I have a degree in psychology, among others, and the first thing you learn is that most people who reach the career level in this field, do it to work on their own issues as they are screwed up. I could have written excellent papers about the psychological instability of most of the psychology department, including the chairwoman, but their aversion to self reflect and grow would have created even more tension than I already did. They hated me as their student and asked me to leave! I didn't though, I just took more of their classes. (Helped me overcome my dominant mother issue.. LOL)

[TheZMan]

GMTA. That’s where I stopped also, for the same reason.

Funny thing is, my pretty neighbor hits on me too. Odd.

[RipSawyer]

“plus the pretty neighbor next door keeps hitting on me”
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For some strange reason that kind of thing happens less and less often lately, in fact is seems to have downright ceased! It must have something to do with global warming, or maybe it is BUSH’S FAULT.