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She turned to him and said “I don’t want to do this anymore”.
He thought for a moment, shrugged and walked out the door. And as he left, he felt a weight lifting from his shoulders.
He walked with a spring in his step for the 1st time in months, he practically floated down the road.
He knew she was watching from the doorway, seeing if he’d turn around or break down in the street and that made him laugh. He was glad she couldn’t see his face, let her have this moment of thinking she had pulled his world down.
As he rounded the corner, he was almost in tears of laughter.
He’d been considering ending this anyway, let’s face it. But her actions had allowed him to leave without feeling guilty for bringing it up.
It started as they all do.
Excitement, laughter, the finding out of things about a person that made it feel fresh and new. And finally seeing her in front of him naked, seeing if his imagination measured up to the reality.
All that good stuff.
But, as with every other time in the history of this race, it settled down into familiarity and comfort.
He knew her routines and words, how she would react to any given situation and to be honest, he was fed up with it.
So when she said she wanted to end it, he thought for a moment and walked.
And within 3 weeks of the end of “the most perfect thing in his life”, he was out with new women.
And they were just as important as the one that tried to finish him.
The only problem was, he had never really been that bothered about where he ended up in life, so anything that happened didn’t upset him too much.
Oh sure, he felt sad and quiet for a bit, but that was good for the soul. Those pangs of sadness really turned on the creative juices and he got endless mileage out of it, put it to good use and wrote that sweet stuff down in case he needed inspiration later.
He had a list of the best lies he’d ever heard and told:
It’s not you, it’s me
I just need space
Of course there’s nobody else
I’ll always think of you
You meant so much to me
This is complicated
You don’t understand
We’ll still be friends
No I’ve never felt like this before
If I could turn back the clock, I would
I didn’t mean to say those things
I understand
I’m not ready for anyone right now
Loveyoumissyoumeanitbye!
Let me explain, dear reader, what the honest truth was.
It doesn’t matter how nice you are, how well you can write or how easily it comes to express those things we all feel but mostly feel unable to express.
If you put anyone else but you first? You’ll end up sobbing like a baby and spewing out 2nd rate poetry to try and communicate how heavy and important it all meant to you and how you couldn’t possibly continue without that person.
When the truth is something quite different – you will cope, you will survive and you will move on.
So what do you do? What did he do?
He got that emotional deadweight out of his life raft, just tossed that stuff overboard and waited for something to rescue him.
And he was rescued.
Oh, but don’t think it was a fair maiden intent on seeing “the good inside” of him or any of that Hallmark crap.
No, he was saved by the knowledge that if you want to have fun, if you want to enjoy yourself? You have to stop lying to yourself about what you want from “life” and get out there and take it.
He wanted women.
Not just one, and not a soulmate that “understood where you come from”.
No, he wanted to sample it all, to live like a king and use that for good.
So, 3 weeks after walking away from 3 years of submission, humiliation and self-debasement, he strapped on his game face and went for it.
And he realised how stupid he had been to think about it like it meant anything.
It was easy to land them, there’s nothing to it.
They all want to hear the same thing, but don’t be too nice about it all or you’ll be seen as “a good friend”.
Nope, you have to pretend like you’re doing them a favour. Make them work for it, trust me on this, it’s better than chasing after them like a dog left at a campsite.
You don’t believe me? You want to write this off as bitter, angry revenge talk?
If that makes you comfortable then by all means put it down to that.
He had spent the weekend playing the game and he had won. No telephone number given afterwards, no promises of anything further.
He went out on Friday, drank the drink, voiced the script and left there Saturday afternoon.
Did the same on Sunday too with another one.
You’re still thinking this is just hurt and wounded inner-feelings of sorrow?
Ok, here’s how to do it:
Just say the right things, smile here, insert a joke there and by the end of the night with enough practice? You’re not spending the evening alone.
It’s like playing a video-game it’s that easy.
Really, it is.
Push the buttons and Open Sesame!
Confuse them with sex or the lack of it. Keep them guessing or once they think they have you figured out?
They’ll be onto the next.
Hey brother, don’t get angry at me for telling you the cold hard truth here.
I didn’t make the rules, I just play them better.
Try it, next time you fancy feeling like a god?
Studied indifference and nonchalance will beat emotive, timid little mortals every single time.
Now if you’ll excuse me, I have to write an email to another one telling them how much I enjoyed the weekend and how much fun they are/funny they are/interesting to talk to/good to be around/special I felt with them. (delete as applicable).
Sorry, what was that?
You thought this was going to be another one of those woeful and cringing missives about how lonely he is without her and how much he misses her?
Nope, this is nothing but the honest, brutal truth about men and women.
Oh now wait, obviously not *you* and your partner – she’s perfect.
I meant the other guy.
He thought for a moment, shrugged and walked out the door. And as he left, he felt a weight lifting from his shoulders.
He walked with a spring in his step for the 1st time in months, he practically floated down the road.
He knew she was watching from the doorway, seeing if he’d turn around or break down in the street and that made him laugh. He was glad she couldn’t see his face, let her have this moment of thinking she had pulled his world down.
As he rounded the corner, he was almost in tears of laughter.
He’d been considering ending this anyway, let’s face it. But her actions had allowed him to leave without feeling guilty for bringing it up.
It started as they all do.
Excitement, laughter, the finding out of things about a person that made it feel fresh and new. And finally seeing her in front of him naked, seeing if his imagination measured up to the reality.
All that good stuff.
But, as with every other time in the history of this race, it settled down into familiarity and comfort.
He knew her routines and words, how she would react to any given situation and to be honest, he was fed up with it.
So when she said she wanted to end it, he thought for a moment and walked.
And within 3 weeks of the end of “the most perfect thing in his life”, he was out with new women.
And they were just as important as the one that tried to finish him.
The only problem was, he had never really been that bothered about where he ended up in life, so anything that happened didn’t upset him too much.
Oh sure, he felt sad and quiet for a bit, but that was good for the soul. Those pangs of sadness really turned on the creative juices and he got endless mileage out of it, put it to good use and wrote that sweet stuff down in case he needed inspiration later.
He had a list of the best lies he’d ever heard and told:
It’s not you, it’s me
I just need space
Of course there’s nobody else
I’ll always think of you
You meant so much to me
This is complicated
You don’t understand
We’ll still be friends
No I’ve never felt like this before
If I could turn back the clock, I would
I didn’t mean to say those things
I understand
I’m not ready for anyone right now
Loveyoumissyoumeanitbye!
Let me explain, dear reader, what the honest truth was.
It doesn’t matter how nice you are, how well you can write or how easily it comes to express those things we all feel but mostly feel unable to express.
If you put anyone else but you first? You’ll end up sobbing like a baby and spewing out 2nd rate poetry to try and communicate how heavy and important it all meant to you and how you couldn’t possibly continue without that person.
When the truth is something quite different – you will cope, you will survive and you will move on.
So what do you do? What did he do?
He got that emotional deadweight out of his life raft, just tossed that stuff overboard and waited for something to rescue him.
And he was rescued.
Oh, but don’t think it was a fair maiden intent on seeing “the good inside” of him or any of that Hallmark crap.
No, he was saved by the knowledge that if you want to have fun, if you want to enjoy yourself? You have to stop lying to yourself about what you want from “life” and get out there and take it.
He wanted women.
Not just one, and not a soulmate that “understood where you come from”.
No, he wanted to sample it all, to live like a king and use that for good.
So, 3 weeks after walking away from 3 years of submission, humiliation and self-debasement, he strapped on his game face and went for it.
And he realised how stupid he had been to think about it like it meant anything.
It was easy to land them, there’s nothing to it.
They all want to hear the same thing, but don’t be too nice about it all or you’ll be seen as “a good friend”.
Nope, you have to pretend like you’re doing them a favour. Make them work for it, trust me on this, it’s better than chasing after them like a dog left at a campsite.
You don’t believe me? You want to write this off as bitter, angry revenge talk?
If that makes you comfortable then by all means put it down to that.
He had spent the weekend playing the game and he had won. No telephone number given afterwards, no promises of anything further.
He went out on Friday, drank the drink, voiced the script and left there Saturday afternoon.
Did the same on Sunday too with another one.
You’re still thinking this is just hurt and wounded inner-feelings of sorrow?
Ok, here’s how to do it:
Just say the right things, smile here, insert a joke there and by the end of the night with enough practice? You’re not spending the evening alone.
It’s like playing a video-game it’s that easy.
Really, it is.
Push the buttons and Open Sesame!
Confuse them with sex or the lack of it. Keep them guessing or once they think they have you figured out?
They’ll be onto the next.
Hey brother, don’t get angry at me for telling you the cold hard truth here.
I didn’t make the rules, I just play them better.
Try it, next time you fancy feeling like a god?
Studied indifference and nonchalance will beat emotive, timid little mortals every single time.
Now if you’ll excuse me, I have to write an email to another one telling them how much I enjoyed the weekend and how much fun they are/funny they are/interesting to talk to/good to be around/special I felt with them. (delete as applicable).
Sorry, what was that?
You thought this was going to be another one of those woeful and cringing missives about how lonely he is without her and how much he misses her?
Nope, this is nothing but the honest, brutal truth about men and women.
Oh now wait, obviously not *you* and your partner – she’s perfect.
I meant the other guy.
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Nah, I'm just magnificently unlucky, and have had bad experiences because I was vulnerable as a result of thinking that men were mankinds bad guys.
The female of the species is absolutely more deadly than the male. I know that now. Fortunately, the vast majority are also far more gullible than the male, so there is hope for all of us.
The female of the species is absolutely more deadly than the male. I know that now. Fortunately, the vast majority are also far more gullible than the male, so there is hope for all of us.
Goatboy wrote:
"Ug ug!"
Shut up you. I remember when I'd walk into your serious topics and make a joke, then you'd have a hissy fit.
*gives you a big kiss*
Hur hur.
"Ug ug!"
Shut up you. I remember when I'd walk into your serious topics and make a joke, then you'd have a hissy fit.
*gives you a big kiss*
Hur hur.
I consider myself very lucky........
Grix Thraves wrote:
> Sure I don't. I won't compare battle scars, but there's nothing on
> this land that will not heal if you face it. Nothing.
>
> So go on, talk about it. I'm sure we'll all sit in shock at how much
> you've gone through.
I won't bother. To use your own words, you may have had similar experiences, but you haven't had MY experiences. You could never understand.
And don't think I haven't faced my pain. I faced it for 6 long months where I was practically paralysed. Both emotionally and socially. Try crying yourself into dehydration every day for 6 months, it's incredibly cleansing. Everything heals sure, but it's not necessarilly the same afterwards. In fact it never is.
> Sure I don't. I won't compare battle scars, but there's nothing on
> this land that will not heal if you face it. Nothing.
>
> So go on, talk about it. I'm sure we'll all sit in shock at how much
> you've gone through.
I won't bother. To use your own words, you may have had similar experiences, but you haven't had MY experiences. You could never understand.
And don't think I haven't faced my pain. I faced it for 6 long months where I was practically paralysed. Both emotionally and socially. Try crying yourself into dehydration every day for 6 months, it's incredibly cleansing. Everything heals sure, but it's not necessarilly the same afterwards. In fact it never is.
Look you two, this isn't Jaws and we're not going to start comparing wounds.
All I have to say is this:
I nobbed 2 women last weekend, and I'm doing it again this weekend.
So you two huddle and talk of love and pain and soul-destruction.
I'll be drinking the beer, dancing like a big gay dancer and then doing man stuff.
Heh
Now I'm off to Sawbo to buy Warcraft 3 and see if angry-hair bird is there.
Ug ug!
All I have to say is this:
I nobbed 2 women last weekend, and I'm doing it again this weekend.
So you two huddle and talk of love and pain and soul-destruction.
I'll be drinking the beer, dancing like a big gay dancer and then doing man stuff.
Heh
Now I'm off to Sawbo to buy Warcraft 3 and see if angry-hair bird is there.
Ug ug!
Heh, I'm not even that concerned about sex these days.
Sure, I look at the odd girl and think "cor, she'd do" and I have a little play about in my head what we'd do if left alone, but that's it. If it ever came to the crunch, I doubt I'd want to expend the energy.
But then, that's probably why I have a series of psychologist appointments coming up.
Sure, I look at the odd girl and think "cor, she'd do" and I have a little play about in my head what we'd do if left alone, but that's it. If it ever came to the crunch, I doubt I'd want to expend the energy.
But then, that's probably why I have a series of psychologist appointments coming up.
Sure I don't. I won't compare battle scars, but there's nothing on this land that will not heal if you face it. Nothing.
So go on, talk about it. I'm sure we'll all sit in shock at how much you've gone through.
So go on, talk about it. I'm sure we'll all sit in shock at how much you've gone through.
And this is why it's best to play them as best as possible.
Not out of loathing or bitterness or anything other than the fact that time and time again, and I've done it myself, we allow ourselves to actually believe the horseshit we're fed about "love" and "soulmates".
It's animal, needs be nothing more.
Don't con yourself that "love" is the all-solving elixir of life, because you'll end up feeling pretty stupid at the end of it.
Not out of loathing or bitterness or anything other than the fact that time and time again, and I've done it myself, we allow ourselves to actually believe the horseshit we're fed about "love" and "soulmates".
It's animal, needs be nothing more.
Don't con yourself that "love" is the all-solving elixir of life, because you'll end up feeling pretty stupid at the end of it.
*claps*
great for you. enjoy life while no-one has forever ruined it for you.
To be quite frank, every day I keep looking for a reason to live, because for the last 4 years, I haven't had one. I've loved, I've lost and how. After getting over the intense misery, the complete lack of self-belief, and the attempted suicides I picked myself up with help from my friends.
Then got another girl, who proceeded to hurt me in ways I won't even go into. Another relationship dead, but I was only half open to it, so I didn't go suicidal this time, I just got hurt.
The more I open up, the more I get hurt for it. I know I'll get a touch of happiness if I drop my defences, but to be quite honest, some things aren;t worth the price you pay for them. As far as relational happiness is concerned, it's something I'm prepared to live without for the rest of my days. I'll look for contentment elsewhere.
If the truth be told, you won't find a more vehemently anti-feminist person on this planet than me. As far as I'm concerned, if there is only one thing wrong with mankind, it's females.
You see, when you get hurt as badly as I did, you don't just lose love, or self-confidence, self-respect, meaning and coherrence. You lose something that could be described as a part of your soul. I've found no way of getting it back. Not women, not work, not play, not friends, not love, not anything.
People like you talk about scars, but I douvt you have any idea how deep they can run.
IB
great for you. enjoy life while no-one has forever ruined it for you.
To be quite frank, every day I keep looking for a reason to live, because for the last 4 years, I haven't had one. I've loved, I've lost and how. After getting over the intense misery, the complete lack of self-belief, and the attempted suicides I picked myself up with help from my friends.
Then got another girl, who proceeded to hurt me in ways I won't even go into. Another relationship dead, but I was only half open to it, so I didn't go suicidal this time, I just got hurt.
The more I open up, the more I get hurt for it. I know I'll get a touch of happiness if I drop my defences, but to be quite honest, some things aren;t worth the price you pay for them. As far as relational happiness is concerned, it's something I'm prepared to live without for the rest of my days. I'll look for contentment elsewhere.
If the truth be told, you won't find a more vehemently anti-feminist person on this planet than me. As far as I'm concerned, if there is only one thing wrong with mankind, it's females.
You see, when you get hurt as badly as I did, you don't just lose love, or self-confidence, self-respect, meaning and coherrence. You lose something that could be described as a part of your soul. I've found no way of getting it back. Not women, not work, not play, not friends, not love, not anything.
People like you talk about scars, but I douvt you have any idea how deep they can run.
IB
Heh
I can smell the testosterone in this thread.
Being an uncaring, out-for-fun bloke rocks.
I've already sorted out another one for this weekend.
*thumps chest*
Like I said, it's as easy as playing video games.
And the end result is better
I can smell the testosterone in this thread.
Being an uncaring, out-for-fun bloke rocks.
I've already sorted out another one for this weekend.
*thumps chest*
Like I said, it's as easy as playing video games.
And the end result is better
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