Hi James,
Thank you for the clarification – that’s sounds like what Richard would call ‘nipping it in the bud’.
Now you maybe able to enjoy a naïve intimacy with a fellow human being without succumbing to the attractiveness of the feeling of affection –
Martin: What does that mean practically then Richard?
Richard: G’day Martin,
Essentially, what “that” meant practically for feeling-being ‘Grace’ was how ‘she’ needed to be fully alert, upon the emergence of (if not prior to) that third-stage ‘sweetness’, to the attractiveness of the feeling of affection/ of ‘self’-centrically being affectionate – so as to not instinctually veer off into the intimacy of love – and thereby remain steadfast with delighting in the physical proximity of the flesh-and-blood body typing these words (i.e., “the other”, in the nomenclature of the third paragraph from the top of this page, that ‘she’ conventionally referred to as “my partner”, when living what ‘she’ laconically termed “my other life”, during ‘her’ interactions on weekdays with female colleagues, friends, acquaintances, &c., in a neighbouring village). (Richard, List D, Martin, 6 Mar 2016).
Cheers Vineeto