Moneek's recent blog is really insightful with the stuff she's thinking of and the answers her friends gave to her. Go check it out: http://movelvet49.blogspot.com/ and read her friend, Katie's, guestbook entry. "A person's emotions are as real for them as any absolute truth, with the only difference being that they are subject to change with experience and introspection." It goes to show that everyone's human experiences are valid and cannot be invalidated or called a "phase" by those who do not experience those same "individual" and "unique" experiences. The opinions of others on anyone else's given experience is subjected to "inductive reasoning" that Jeff mentioned in which persons base the current situation on conclusions from past experiences. Those reasonings are realative to the perceiver and do not apply to everybody. Everyone has different experiences that shape who they are now and that continues to change and evolve over time. Everyone's experiences and what they think, feel, or behave is valid and unique to themselves that nobody can invalidate them until they could remotely experience those same things. You gotta read her blogs and the guestbook entry because that really breaks it down.