Posted on 07/28/2006 5:00:29 PM PDT by Maximus_Ridiculousness
Bill,
It’s NOT too late.
You can still make this work.
LET GO of the past hurt. Work on putting it all behind you. Let go of the blame because it doesn’t matter anymore and it is getting you nowhere. It won’t change anything that, a long time ago in a galaxy far far away, you realized that it was your fault, or God’s fault, or the church’s fault, or all three. Now that you’ve had your epiphany, MOVE ON. None of that matters. If you’re really serious about meeting your mate, or winning your lady friend’s heart over, then make it a priority and a goal. If you get hurt, FEEL the hurt, and move on. You CAN do it.
Bill, you say the glass is half empty, but whether you realize it or not, at any time in your life, like right this very minute, for example, you have the power within YOU to make that glass half full.
Or hey, why not make it completely full? What's with this half thing?
I'm not entirely sure what you mean, and my confusion might be all the answer that your question needs.
One of the biggest mistakes that many people make is to hope to find "the one" to pour out all of their thoughts and energies to. Until then, you "bottle up" and keep too much to yourself.
I tend to "bottle up" a great deal, but I don't envision pouring out everything to a significant other. In my ideal situation, my significant other would be able to understand many of the things that I've thought about over the years, and she'd generally agree with my thoughts. However, those issues wouldn't dominate our interactions. Instead, we'd have a good mix of light and heavy conversations. The light stuff would tend to keep the heavy stuff from feeling so heavy. We'd do stuff together to generate fresh "light" topics all the time. The world around us would do plenty to generate the "heavy" topics. Again, I don't have an experience base that gives me this ideal, so I understand that it may not be very realistic.
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Hey, good point!
Hi, Barb.
Watched "fighting 69th" earlier. Before that--watched the end of "Enemy of the State"--that resteraunt scene is one tha thas NOT been paralleled in ANY show I know of--INCLUDING Reservior Dogs!!
My VCR finally died tonight--it is 19 years old, and I last fixed it 10 years ago, when we bought this house. I HAD to fix it, as the signal runs through it, and I could NOT watch tv at all!! 15 minutes and 6 capacitors later--it is now ready for several more years. The other VCR had been broke for awhile--I finally fixed it tonight too- just a belt, so far. it is a much newer, cheaper made unit(like everything these days.)
Why do I tend to wait so long to fix my own stuff???I don't really know..I enjoy fixing other peoples things. and things around the house.But my own stuff always seems to come WAY last, for some reason(like the A/C module in the van.I waied until about a month ago to fix it, and JUST in time, too!!)
I know many here will say "what a boring way to spend Saturday night".......yeah.it is. But it will have to do, for now.
I have a family reunion tomorrow,The Kilburn Family reunion. (My mother is a Kilburn). We go every year. Nowdays-there are MANY people there I don't even know at all--I remember when there were maybe 30 people there. Nowdays--there are probably close to 200!!
You've got it exactly right. A couple of summers ago, I stopped by the office of an elderly professor to chat. His secretary informed me he was gone for the next three weeks on his honeymoon. I had always assumed he was already married. He was in his eighties and I couldn't imagine him not surrounded by grandkids.
Granted, not everyone lives to see their eightieth birthday, but if you're going to commit to someone, you have to pick someone whose flaws you can live with for the rest of your life. I'm much happier being single and not seeing anyone than I was when I was with people who weren't right for me. I don't feel like I have to be dating just because I'm in my 20s.
So...come here often?
So...come here often?
OK, you win!
Hows it going?
Whoops...pardon the double post.
Hey, Jack!
The family reunion sounds like it'll be a blast. I had mine in 2000. We had relatives from California and Chicago all meet in Colorado. We stayed in some cabins about 14,000 feet up. Breathing and walking became rather complicated (80% of the group were pretty overweight) but we managed.
Sounds like you have The Undead VCR. How many regenerations have you put it through? Eeeeeeeek.
I haven't seen Fighting 69th, but I have seen Enemy of the State. I still like Reservoir Dogs better (cause it's just so twisted)!
Got tied up in a debate? Does that mean there are FReepers who were arguing with you about it?
I wouldn't know much about global warming...I have a tendency to not listen to things that aren't true.
I married my best friend. We are closer to each other, then we are with anyone else. We share everything. Period.
Personally, I think this is the way it should be in order to have a successful marriage.
Actually this is the first time. Someone on the Dose said our friend OhioWFan was posting. The "Be Picky" advice was from her. But I forgot to copy her on my message. Silly me.
Oh well, it's late. I guess things like that and double posting are understandable at this hour. Lol.
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