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Sep 30, 2007Comments: 92 · Posts: 5629 · Topics: 56
I have that placement too. We should all group hug.
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Feb 19, 2005Comments: 1 · Posts: 4444 · Topics: 44
"Do you ever find that you sometimes have expectations of others to extend the same courtesy, if you will, whenever the urge to unload your issues on someone else, strikes you? Even if that urge is rare?"
Oh, HONEY! Story of my life. LOL Actually, I just had this happen yesterday. I went back to work after being off for the holidays. I went to lunch with a friend who immediately goes into a rant about the holidays, and how busy, and on and on and on. So I do my pisces thing: "Oh no!" "uh-huh" "I know what you mean" "Awww you poor thing" and I did mean everything I was saying. She had a rough time of it. But, you know what? We get back to work and I realize, wow...she didn't even ask how my vacation went or how my holiday was. WOW!
But I've just accepted it, you know? I think this propensity to keep all our stuff to ourselves is what keeps people shut out sometimes. I know it's the key to my intimacy issues, but I'm aware of it and I'm working on it. That's all you can do. I just need to conquer this pride thing I have with asking others for help, because we all need it sometimes.
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Sep 30, 2007Comments: 92 · Posts: 5629 · Topics: 56
reminds me of some American guy I met once while travelling,and he introduced me to this mental hoedown slamdancing style ...
Was he from Texas? Did he shoot guns in the air and go "Yeehaw" Like the Simpsons Character.
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Sep 13, 2007Comments: 0 · Posts: 455 · Topics: 31
"Honeygirl--->I don't think that's really it... Most of my knowledge just comes with my past experiences and dealing with men period...
I did everything for my X... "
Honeygirl, your story is a spitting image of what I went through with this man. We were young and in college and after he pledged his fraternity, he started getting attention left and right from girls. If I even reached for his phone, the sh*t would hit the fan! But I could tell just by his reactions that he wasn't doing right by me. I found out about a girl and questioned him about it and he even went as far as to punch a whole in my wall because he was upset and mad about my accusations. And I'll be darned if the VERY next day, I talked to this same girl and she told me everything. And then he was crying and begging me not to leave. This went on for a couple of years until I finally ended things.
And that kind of stuff threw me off for the longest. He would do the most f'd up things behind my back and then turn around and act like he couldn't breath if I was to ever leave him.
And yeah his current girl allows their relationship to be open but I keep trying to explain to him over and over, that in HER mind, she is doing these things in the hopes of finally having him to herself one day. And at the same time, now that she ended up pregnant by him, she will be in his life for the next 18 years. It's just weird to me. I asked him how the heck she got pregnant and he said during sex one night she told him that she forgot her pill but she thought they would be fine. And so he didnt bother to pull out. I mean it's like he wants somebody to be there for him without being committed but at the same time he purposely created a situation that would cause her be be around forever. And he told me that with her it's like he has the best of two worlds. He said in her he has ME and he has his bestfriend (guy friend) from highschool/college all in one person. He has both people in her.
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Dec 12, 2007Comments: 0 · Posts: 990 · Topics: 22
It's important to be a team player. We are all brothers and sisters, really. There needs to be a sense of that brotherhood to fall back on. If you get too caught up in yourself then you will actually find yourself on a lonely path to nothing.
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Sep 30, 2007Comments: 92 · Posts: 5629 · Topics: 56
I'm going to go play COD4 and pig out on some steak and ravioli.
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She's not a victim at all, Mgirl.
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Feb 19, 2005Comments: 1 · Posts: 4444 · Topics: 44
Totally agree with you, Wheels. Such a great book, too! There was a BBC version, but I've never seen it, so I don't know if it's any better.
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wheelhomies: "not worth any sort of attachment on my end."
Mon cherie! You cut me to the quick!
Roxi, I fully sympathize. If it's any consolation, I'm a Computer Dude, and I still got suckered in by a slippery old fish (Hi! P-Angel!) - but I wasn't myself at that time (head over heels in love, and goofy as hell!). And like Eaglegirl, I've been discouraged by some of the crap on this forum, and yet I stay.
There are people here who are worth the time, effort, and genuine interest. Concern? Involvement? After 2007, I'm definitely limiting those!