50% of marriages ending in divorce includes people who have continuously made a terrible decision and been remarried multiple times, as well. I don't care to look at statistics from the typical population when assessing my own chances for happiness. ['never tell me the odds']
It's certainly a strange revelation to be having, for myself as well. It sounds like it may never be relevant for you in the sense of including a relationship, but perhaps it's good to know where you stand so that you can stand in that spot more firmly? We've touched briefly on how demanding others can be about this kind of thing.
[He gives her question some thought, but those ellipses turn into text soon enough.] I believe so. I don't know if I want a term for that beyond knowing that I'm not interested in anyone until I am, in fact, interested in someone, but that is how I would describe the sensation. I had never given thought, only an assumption, as to whether or not the sex of the other person might matter to me. I suppose I'm surprised to realize that even as a theoretical exercise, it does not.
[Hannibal feels a little betrayed, himself. He couldn't be with Murasaki - for a multitude of reasons - and while there's still a young kid's stubbornness in him that sometimes wants to get a plane ticket back to France and see her, he also knows that twenty-five years removed that it absolutely cannot happen. But he'd also thought of her as a potential fluke, not his norm expressing itself. Confronting this possibility for future attraction is being presented with new and unwanted data, and Hannibal can't help but handle it with suspicion right now.]
...You have a compelling point.
[please pardon hannibal while his ENTIRE BRAIN reboots]
What if the person I might be interested in romantically IS heterosexual, though? Hypothetically speaking.
YOU get a promise ring! and YOU get a cheap promise ring! EVERYONE GETS A CHEAP PROMISE RING
It's certainly a strange revelation to be having, for myself as well. It sounds like it may never be relevant for you in the sense of including a relationship, but perhaps it's good to know where you stand so that you can stand in that spot more firmly? We've touched briefly on how demanding others can be about this kind of thing.
[He gives her question some thought, but those ellipses turn into text soon enough.] I believe so. I don't know if I want a term for that beyond knowing that I'm not interested in anyone until I am, in fact, interested in someone, but that is how I would describe the sensation. I had never given thought, only an assumption, as to whether or not the sex of the other person might matter to me. I suppose I'm surprised to realize that even as a theoretical exercise, it does not.
[Hannibal feels a little betrayed, himself. He couldn't be with Murasaki - for a multitude of reasons - and while there's still a young kid's stubbornness in him that sometimes wants to get a plane ticket back to France and see her, he also knows that twenty-five years removed that it absolutely cannot happen. But he'd also thought of her as a potential fluke, not his norm expressing itself. Confronting this possibility for future attraction is being presented with new and unwanted data, and Hannibal can't help but handle it with suspicion right now.]
...You have a compelling point.
[please pardon hannibal while his ENTIRE BRAIN reboots]
What if the person I might be interested in romantically IS heterosexual, though? Hypothetically speaking.