"There’s a Korean word my grandma taught me. It’s called jung.
It’s the connection between two people that can’t be severed,
even when love turns to hate. You still have those old feelings
for them; you can’t ever completely shake them loose of you; you
will always have tenderness in your heart for them."
— Jenny Han, "P.S. I Still Love You"

This sounds more like nostalgia to me.

Some such relationships are better left in the past.

Amyjo Wrote:
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> This sounds more like nostalgia to me.
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> Some such relationships are better left in the
> past.

Totally agree!

I can't forget my Mormon family. I remember them. I don't miss them, because I've always been better off away from them. Even as a little boy I would run away with no intention of returning. The police would take me home. I spent a lot of time in the jail of my father's home. I spent more time listening to his lies. It's too late to forget any of it. Not gonna happen.

If the mormon church will agree to stop growing and to leave the planet that we currently share, I'll agree to leave them alone.

Until then, they have their freedom of religion and I have the freedom to expose their fraud and abuses, and to share my personal experiences of the dystopian life they tried to trap me in to. Who says you should leave the church alone?

This.

Poking around a few articles, I found this is spelled "jeong." It's an internal phenomenon, which may involve feelings of love/affection and attachment, but it is also an external dynamic, that "something" that exists and bonds people to each other, and (get this!) other things. Such as an ideology? a church?

One article mentioned "miunjeong," which exists, or develops, with people who have an inveterate hostility to each other (the ex-mo and TSCC?). "Miunjeong" sonds like the Korean equivalent of an old American saying, "Choose carefully what (or who) you hate, because you will come to resemble them."

A pdf with more:

http://www.prcp.org/publications/sig.pdf

Thanks, Baura--very provocative thread.