You've changed

Every serious relationship you were ever in, changed you. Men change for women and yes, women really do change for men.

Did you keep the changes or shed them with relief when the relationship ended?

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A nice short blog.

See? I can do them! tongue
I always try to shed the change maker with great relief.
Hmm...very good question but I have to think hard before answering...? confused
I have never made dramatic changes.
I learned to be more patient in the last one, and I do try no keep that up (even if it kills me)
And I try not to think too much into the future as well. A difficult thing for a planner help
Vier, I guess it will be true love when you don't even notice you are changing ... grin
Daniela - half the time we don't notice the changes ourselves, it is only when an outsider says (sometimes disapprovingly) that we've changed.

Or the outsider says it to them - you've changed so much since you got involved with That Woman (or of course That Man)
Molly patient is good. And yup I will be a planner to my last breath. In fact I will probably use it, if not alone, gasping out 'don't forget the playlist I wanted at my funeral'. Just hope the person with me (a) isn't my killer (b) speaks English.
I'm naturally untidy so being in a relationship means I have to tidy up my act. Bit of a relief, always, when I can revert to relaxed mode.
I just live. no drama.

but I always change. and learn. everyday.

Biff wave
I change right back immediately.........Eastenders now banned in my house rolling on the floor laughing
Bogey wave yup change is life
Crazy yes releasing the inner vamp is the best, too good a feeling to lose!
Z Think carefully before you answer this - where do you stand on Strictly?

Because you might be wiping out your chances with some of the lady bloggers if you aren't ever so careful scold
Nope Strictly's gone as well laugh

There would need to be careful negotiation before either returned, and I won't be calling on the ex pm May to fight my side rolling on the floor laughing
Legs,

Yes, it's one of the good things. Aside from that I'm the same person...or maybe a little crazier but I like it, makes me feel in control.laugh
Noted, and expect to be much mocked when you are bullied into watching both by the dainty damsel wrapping you round her finger when it happens laugh

I know of a guy who used to boast he never watched TV at all and he's now watching soaps and not even in his own language. Picture the look of dumb suffering in his eyes but - ahhh, love changes you all.

By the way if there are any male TV programs that act as catnip, please (anyone) let me know, I will seriously consider investing in a TV and will list the programs on my profile laugh
syre would be boring if it was the same all the time dont think I change for anyone am good as i am we change all the time is part of living have given up on buying to mant different things at Christmas .but that's not down to another .now I do in a few hours before took days and end
Crazy, finding someone to share your crazy with is the best luck there is yay

Would you ever quieten down for the otherwise-perfect guy, or would you make him be crazy too? (change, change, all about change)
I am not over my last meaningful relationship 8 years ago, I have had other formal relationships, I am even coming out of a 4 year relationship living together and all, but I still can't get over her. I just miss her so, I long for her so much...
JJ you'd have to change to SOME degree even if it was only making 2 cups of tea instead of one, or sitting back feeling spoiled when she brings you one unasked laugh

And yes we all change even on our own, sometimes the changes that come with living alone make it even harder to think of ever being with someone else - all that FUSS.

But the right person wouldn't feel like a fuss, I guess.
Biff, you might be surprised by the number of lady members who list F1 as an interest if that's any help laugh
the right person is no fuss ..living alone yeah changes you no doubt...some mornings I get up and just say not today so I go and get the breakfast in hotel a read of the papers and a bit of banter.....sometimes I thinks its the shed I should live in as im in maybe to much and I suppose another thing is now if its a heavy frost I can stay wrapped up till its gone being alone you have great freedom do what ever when ever but truth being with right partner we will tow the same oul lines as ever
Whatyouhad - after 8 years you've both changed so much that even if you could pick up where you left off, it couldn't be the original relationship and it wouldn't last

You sort of have to get over it before trying with someone else and mucking them about - JMO
Z, one of my best friends was genuinely fascinated by it and wouldn't miss a GP, her husband found it boring laugh

But me, if having to watch F1 was the price, I'll be single a while yet sigh
JJ that sounds rather nice, so long as the woman who comes along isn't bossy and changes all that you'll rub along nicely together heart beating
If I had to watch F1, I think I'd take up knitting (which I hate) as a way 8th getting through it laugh
Legs,
I tried hard to be extra nice but the craziness is always there...that seems to be the attractionsigh
I think men and women change, we are not sheep so there are of course differences. Compromise ia the word as long as that does not change me fundamently that is.

Day by day step by step we change with new learning but get rid of what harms us, like someone scatching his ash and bits ha ha in front of me.
As Red said, compromise.

I don't feel I change, more so situational compromise.

Twelve years ago I dated a very wealthy lady that wanted to change my "ME" to say the least, in many ways I felt like a price tag or a commodity to be brokered.

One has to keep in mind the mindset of the wealthy, the talk that happens around the kitchen table, from infant to infinitive ..............

Change can be a wonderful adaptation to ones life, as long as it can benefit in all aspects regardless of simple minded mockery. thumbs up
Im ever changing but the changes I make are always for me not for the other person....this way I never lose myself or who I am....its about me becoming more of who I am and not less...so yes I keep the changes I make because its about evolving into the me that I always have been.....wave
Molly, F1 being drowned out by the tickety-tackety of your flashing knitting needles would make you BOTH unhappy rolling on the floor laughing

Crazy extra nice AND crazy is perhaps the winning formula?

Red I would say I got braver and have carried on getting braver. So that was fairly fundamental.
Scratching his ash?????? rolling on the floor laughing

Bentlee, know of two men who took up with much richer women and couldn't handle being treated like possessions. Do you think it is because women are clumsy at it? Or men simply don't like being kept? Many many rich men don't seem to have that much problem persuading women to become their bought-and-sold playthings
I think I would find being a kept woman very uncomfortable.
I know some people love it, but it wouldn't sit well with me
Would you have to ask them for money when you want to get your hair cut and stuff?
Eeek
Molly, been there, done that, to some degree - I had my own credit card but had to explain every month how I had managed (with a baby, 3 horses, 4 dogs, 30 hens and other sundry expenses) to spend so much, HATED IT.

But I do miss not having to worry about all the expenses myself. Perfect world whoever has the money, the other partner has enough money of their own to buy what they want, including luxuries, without an inquisition because it is their own money.
But now I think of it, that's one change that stuck. I used to be very careless about where money went, but ever since those days I have been able to account for where I spent what. It was good training for being single.
Ok, after giving it some thought....and reading the comments...

I can´t say that I ever had to change with any of my relationships but, becoming and being the person I really am!

I also go along with what that Crazy lady said... thumbs up banana
I agree
If there was an inquisition, I would lose my temper anyway
I remember my friend's husband encouraged her to give up her (part-time) job when their child was young. She did. I was with her one day when he was rude to her when she asked him for money to get her hair cut (just a basic trim, nothing fancy). She was very embarrassed.
I swear, he was lucky I held my tongue, and that was only because of loyalty to her
Daniela, that's success in picking relationships, that they brought out the person you were born to be yay

My worst experiment was with someone who made me eventually beady-eyed and suspicious, as it turned out for good reason, but that demon once out the box is hard to dismiss forever and entirely. The demon still pops up to sniff at the atmosphere occasionally, very unsettling - and worse, when I am being normally curious and am accused of jealousy, it sends me into a loop. Am I? uh oh I have to pick through everything I felt and said - that was the worst change of them all.

Tchah.
Molly, I trust you fixed him with a Look even when keeping quiet.

Back in the old old days it was understood the wife had an allowance and made do on that. Much better. If when I get super-rich I will adopt that system for my companion(s), I think.
I didn't
I had to walk away
A look would not have conveyed how I felt
A lump hammer across the noggin might have
So how's that marriage going?
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