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[noahgibbs]

I was talking to ravenslost recently about the fact that I tend to go for specific not-good-for-me crazy people (no, nobody I'm currently dating is in that category, though some exes are). And ravenslost was trying to see the appeal. To a large extent I don't really know it, but here's something that came to me and rang true...

When you're dating somebody you know is crazy in an identified way, the other shoe comes pre-dropped.

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[king-chiron.livejournal.com]

Better the shoe you know than the shoe you don't?

[plantgirl.livejournal.com]

I know a fair number of people who have that same tendency (mostly men). With most of them it seems to connect to a desire to be able to play the knight in shining armor.

However, I know one person who consistently is attracted to people who have problems with depression, and it seems to be an attraction to the perverse/morbid humor that can be displayed by the seriously depressed.

[angelbob.livejournal.com]

Yeah. I'm pretty sure I'm over my Knight-in-shining-armor reaction to these folks, partly because I'm just not good enough at it. I *do* enjoy the sparring, but that's not quite the same thing :-)

[internet-addict.livejournal.com]

So, you've generally preferred to trade the unknown other shoe for the well-known Sword of Damocles?

[angelbob.livejournal.com]

Indeed. Other shoes come in a very wide variety of shapes, colors, weights and sharpnesses. Swords have, at least, a much narrower range.

[internet-addict.livejournal.com]

Ah, straight and to the point.