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Interacting with enemy camps  

rm_mggrace8 55F
640 posts
4/26/2009 9:41 am

Last Read:
4/30/2009 6:44 pm

Interacting with enemy camps


Okay, so maybe dating is not like military combat...but give some of my past experiences here and in the outside world....it sure has felt like it. I bring this up, because it is spring...birds are happy, squirrels are spunky, and the air is simply packed with an over abundance of<b> pheromones </font></b>to make all of us a little love-sick at the possibilities of new and wondrous relationships.

As I stated earlier, my ability to make good decisions during these pheromone-induced times are at an all time low...much like the drunken state of Blanche Dubious in a Street Car Named Desire. Not that I personally perceive myself as being this mindlessly helpless, deranged, or pathetic, but....as a woman I know we all have that door mat, self-defeating, personality trait, that allows us to make ridiculous decisions about life and love.

With relative certainty we can all clearly state what we would like from a relationship....and in the beginning they always sound like they mirror your own...I guess the true skeptic that I am often begin to wonder how long it will take until all of my endearing qualities become mind-numbing madness for the other person and they grow to hate that in which they found so simply adorable about me. examples:

You know when you first go out they tell you that little snore of yours is the most adorable thing they have ever heard until 4-5 years later when they are putting pillows over your head praying for your demise so that they can have just a little shut eye.

Or, your carefree outlook on lack of tidiness, early on they chuckle and say....just having your here is beautiful, I can't see the clutter...4-5 years later it is do you ever leave the couch? Or is it permanently bound to your behind, and therefore it is too heavy for you to get up and pick up all of your junk....?

When you first meet you drive a muscle car that sucks up enough in fossil fuels and crude to make your carbon footprint the size of China's...your partner tells you awww I love Classic cars...until, until, 4-5 years later when after maxing out your 5th gas card and are applying for a second mortgage on the house, they lay down in front of the car...stating if you don't buy a hybrid, then you will have to walk to work...

Okay and I guess I should tell you I giggle...not a little...I do a lot...to the point of at times snorting, drawing attention, annoying the hell out of others and definitely irritating anyone who might not be abundantly happy at that moment...I realize that on the outside this seems like a harmless trait...but more often than not...it has created very unhappy responses from others. So most assuredly, this would be the one stand out trait...that will become a point of contention in the future.

So what endearing qualities will you be exposing to others this Spring, and what was the worst personality trait you ever had to accept from the opposite sex during your relationship?

I'm Just Sayin'--Seriously?


wildnwanton 61F
19428 posts
4/29/2009 10:14 am

Endearing qualities? I lack them I think. I snort when I laugh sometimes, laugh at things I have running through my mind that I haven't cared to share with anyone else, change my mind on an hourly basis, take forever getting dressed, am not functional until I have had at LEAST two cups of coffee, and a host of other things. But once thing I know for certain, I ABSOLUTELY REFUSE to be a doormat for anyone else on the planet. After being married 4 times and giving and bending to someone elses will for 24 long years, if we can't see eye to eye, then its time for me to move on. I have a 0% bullshit policy.

"Shall I tell you the secret of the true scholar? It is this: every man I meet is my master in some point, and in that I learn of him."
~Ralph Waldo Emerson


rm_mggrace8 replies on 4/30/2009 4:20 pm:
Outside of the 4 marriages....all of your endearing qualities are mine...that does not bode well for me does it? LOL Oh well....try try try again...

Luvsweetly 63F

4/27/2009 3:11 pm

thanks for this post Hun...I can laugh now at Your question...first partner was what a man should not be...22 yrs. with him...came a time I could not think of one endearing trait but could list dozens of what I disliked and disrespected...yet I survived thankfully...a better person inspite of what I endured...

TASTE LIFE IN ALL IT'S FLAVOUR


CleavageFan4U 67M
69374 posts
4/26/2009 7:13 pm

Let’s just say there is a fine line between attraction and obsession. But, the problem is different gals draw that distinction different ways, and sometimes the same one will define it differently depending on how their situation may have changed.

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friend19602009 63M

4/26/2009 4:22 pm

Endearing qualities. Right. Right. I know i have them here somewhere.
Possible under this pile of papers on my desk.
I agree with lakelaptop (amazing writer btw) jealousy is the worst.


rm_mggrace8 replies on 4/26/2009 4:30 pm:
I know and I wish I was a jealous kind of girl, but....sometimes it is easy to forget the wonderful things you see in the person in front of you...You guys can easily be distracted....LOL

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