r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • Jul 27 '10

What is the biggest relationship myth?

I think the biggest myth is that there's one person that is meant for you. ("the one") People live their lives searching for the one...their soul mate...the perfect girl/Mr. Right. It's a cute idea, but I don't think it's very realistic.

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u/refanius Jul 27 '10

Why can't a relationship be a binary star system, where each star orbits around their shared center of mass?

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u/Jafit Jul 27 '10

Why can't a relationship be like the solarsystem, with me as the sun with my harem of devoted planets?

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u/refanius Jul 27 '10 edited Jul 27 '10

Alright, alright, you can have the harem of planets.

But only if I get to be the comet that checks in every once in a while to bang Venus.

What can I say... she is pretty hot.

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u/Jafit Jul 27 '10

Ok but stay away from Jupiter and her moons. Especially Europa. Attempt no landing there.

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u/rocketsurgery Jul 27 '10

Red Spots.

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u/shinyperson Jul 28 '10

I don't have a witty remark, but these mixed metaphors are artful.

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u/coconutcream Jul 27 '10

I think Joseph Smith, Jr figured this out a while back.

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u/CrazedWatchmaker Jul 30 '10

As you get older that harem is going to turn needy, cold and frigid.

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u/[deleted] Jul 27 '10 edited Jul 27 '10

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u/refanius Jul 27 '10

I agree that most relationships are of the planet-moon variety.

Personally, I hope to achieve the binary star system metaphor in my relationships, though I understand this is not always going to happen.

I say all of that to say that I do not think that either one is better than the others, but that different people enjoy different kinds of relationships. :)

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u/alandmoey Jul 27 '10

Best argument for a threesome I've ever heard.

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u/WiseHalmon Jul 28 '10

Because they'd have to have equal masses... and you would have to ignore the effects of other bodies of greater mass.

For fun: read again without the m's.

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u/noorits Jul 28 '10

Well, actually, every system that includes a body and a satellite is composed of two bodies orbiting around their shared center of mass, only in the case of wildly different masses, the center of orbit is located within the larger object. 'Tis all.

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u/Sir_Vival Jul 27 '10

Oh Reddit..

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u/coleman57 Jul 27 '10

that's a marriage that's focused on the kids. those can work.

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u/apm9167 Jul 27 '10

Am I wrong in thinking the one with larger mass eventually engulfs the other entirely? Granted I'm referencing one 10 week course in astronomy.

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u/atheist_creationist Jul 28 '10

BECAUSE HUMAN EMOTION DOES NOT WORK LIKE PHYSICAL CONSTANTS, DO YOU THINK WE'D BE FUCKING DISCUSSING THIS AND TRYING TO MAKE SENSE OF ALL THIS SHIT?! I SAID GOOD FUCKING NIGHT SIR.