Posted on 12/09/2022 5:05:02 PM PST by tiredofallofit
Imagine this. You meet a charming man with whom you seem to have an instant connection. This man constantly flatters you, praises you, and makes you feel like you are on top of the world. He gives you gifts, he treats you to fancy meals, and he seems so attentive to all of your needs. You quickly open up to him, sharing with him your deepest desires and dreams. Perhaps you even feel like you are sharing with him secrets about your life that you have not shared with anyone else. You appreciate how he listens and how he seems to reciprocate with sharing his own deepest hopes and emotions. Pretty soon you feel like no else could understand or sympathize with you like he does. You have found your match made in heaven.
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Harry is only now starting to realize that something isn’t quite right with her. He’s not very bright so this will take awhile!
his look was not a happy one when Meghan did that curtsy bit during the netflix filming. kudos to netflix for leaving that in
So what is new about these sorts of relationships?
What is new about bad, manipulative people?
Why is it necessary to use new pop psych terms to describe such people and relationships?
A friend of mine says I owe him 10 years because he married a woman who was playing both of us at the same time and got raked over the coals for 10 years and screwed in the divorce. We laugh about it and I thank him for saving me from her.
He and I are both happy and doing well - she OTOH is a very screwed up and unhappy person.
There were no women doing the military duty I had when I was young and single so I ended up with someone from a totally different career field. I found military women understood my duty and put up with it better than civilians.
When I ended up in a Joint Billet in DC one of my single co-workers always had the single women in our Agency fawning all over him but he never dated any of them. He always said "Never sh!t where you work." Always a good idea to keep work separate from love.
Thanks. I’ve been having hit or miss on my hypnosis bit and girls just don’t fall for the “does my handkerchief smell like chloroform to you” bit either. This could be the one though.
I think the pop psych terms help the people who are in these awful relationships to better understand what they are dealing with. Yes, there have always been bad, manipulative people, but I think we understand them much better now, perhaps.
Don’t fish off the company pier
Yup.
He only lightened slightly when someone off camera caught his attention.
“We got 12 minutes before the nukes hit. You wanna go out with a bang?”
Pop psych terms for these relationships and people have been continuously evolving for a long time. I’m not being cold when I say that changing the terms has made any real difference. People and relationships like these have always existed and I can’t see calling them something different has accomplished much.
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“Of course, a lot of men can’t spot the good women either.”
My shtick used to be:
“If there’s a crazy woman in the room, I can find her.
Put me in a room full of supermodels and if there’s one sitting in the corner playing with a knife, I’ll go talk to her. ‘You look interesting. Hey, is that thing sharp?’ “
I actually did marry a good one, though.
*** You meet a charming man with whom you seem to have an instant connection.***
Sounds a bit like a guy I fell in love with. The day after I met him, I wrote my best friend that I thought I met the guy I wanted to marry.
She kept that letter. Just in case.
Well, we were both right. He became my husband several years later, and she returned the letter to me shortly before we wed.
We still say we are a match made in Heaven. Truly blessed. 37 years married. Life is good.
Looking at all the relationship advice out there, and being single and trying to date I’ve learned something..
... everyone is crazy and abusive. You can’t win.
When I was in HS and dumped for the first time, my amazing Mama told me that I might have to kiss a lots of frogs before I found my handsome prince. It was her way of telling me that I was worthy of a special guy. I’m glad I kept looking. Found him.
Your wife, I presume?
You and me, GG2!! We found ourselves some keepers, didn’t we?
Funny. Maybe The Duke and Duchess of Nothingham will do a Netflix gig “How We Escaped our Trauma Bond with the Royals”
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