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Comment by sandworm101 | Hacker News Reader

This is young love, puppy love. People at such stage of a relationship find everything facinating. I think there is a hormone that makes them forget or not care how gushy and idiotic such things appear to outsiders. Give it a year and the author will quietly delete the article.

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I was in the throes of this 30 years ago and gave a quote to a friend writing an article about hacker culture that was overly sappy about my new partner. The relationship is long-since dead but that damned quote is still there. (At least it was an article that I doubt a lot of people read...)

What killed the relationship?

Both of us being young and not fully-formed.

I know people who have had successful relationships last from teenage years thru old age. This wasn't one of those.

No regrets. I wouldn't be who I am without the knocks and jolts along the way.

Thank you!

yes i delete all my articles a year later, including those from 7 years ago. absolutely correct.

I agree this is just young love. They’ve known each other less than a year. It’s either honeymoon phase or deep codependency. I hope the former.

> there is a hormone that makes them forget or not care how gushy and idiotic such things appear to outsiders

Honestly, it’s sad that people outside these relationships feel that way. Young love is great and anyone lucky enough to experience it should not be ashamed of it, then or later.

<3 stay hungry stay foolish

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