What You Didn't Say..... ( Archived) (30)

Aug 16, 2006 11:06 AM CST What You Didn't Say.....
wikked
wikkedwikkedAjax, Ontario Canada655 Threads 4 Polls 6,091 Posts
I have always been a forthright person, direct in my speech and have always expected the same from others...though this is not necessarily wrong...I have had the opportunity now to see that people say just as much - if not more - by what they DON'T say....

What do you think...are people more honest in what they say or what they actually didn't say....
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Aug 16, 2006 11:36 AM CST What You Didn't Say.....
slicktrix
slicktrixslicktrixHagerstown, Maryland USA3 Threads 84 Posts
Glad I'm at the front end of this one!

Fact of the matter is...people only HEAR what they want to.
It doesn't make much of a difference what is said or not.
I, too, am an honest person...but being honest can make you very unpopular!...unless you look like you, wikked!
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Aug 16, 2006 11:40 AM CST What You Didn't Say.....
wikked
wikkedwikkedAjax, Ontario Canada655 Threads 4 Polls 6,091 Posts
Thank you...i'm sure it was meant as a compliment...but it has its drawbacks...you see very few people are really honest with me...they just tell me what they think i want to hear...that is when i have to listen to what they "didn't" say...
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Aug 16, 2006 11:43 AM CST What You Didn't Say.....
slicktrix
slicktrixslicktrixHagerstown, Maryland USA3 Threads 84 Posts
Ahh-hah...see your point. Yes, I meant it as a compliment.

Seems to me that what they DON'T say is often
translated into their movements and body language.
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Aug 16, 2006 11:44 AM CST What You Didn't Say.....
schmorbraten
schmorbratenschmorbratenCologne, Nordrhein-Westfalen Germany33 Threads 1,462 Posts
Well beeing honest can make u lonely, i 2nd. By now i know, i must have been to honestlaugh

Lutz
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Aug 16, 2006 11:52 AM CST What You Didn't Say.....
ahhhhhh lutz we don't have to be lonely anymore we can be tooo honest together!!!grin
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Aug 16, 2006 11:55 AM CST What You Didn't Say.....
slicktrix
slicktrixslicktrixHagerstown, Maryland USA3 Threads 84 Posts
Nice to know there's a second there! Although I
don't wish anyone ill will here, it seems that everybody
is after 'warm and fuzzy' feelings and I'm just not that
niave about life...it's not always rosey. If it were,
I reckon none of us would be here!
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Aug 16, 2006 12:02 PM CST What You Didn't Say.....
Lillyofthevalley
LillyofthevalleyLillyofthevalleySt John's, Newfoundland Canada38 Threads 3,152 Posts
You're on to something there. People are more honest in what they don't say. To say something you run the risk of confrontation, hurt feelings, ruffeled feathers... what have you... But omitting what should be said does not necessarily have the same repercussions...clear as mud right?help
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Aug 16, 2006 12:02 PM CST What You Didn't Say.....
schmorbraten
schmorbratenschmorbratenCologne, Nordrhein-Westfalen Germany33 Threads 1,462 Posts
I´m glad u know me better than i docrying, another 2nd yep none of us would be here, and there may be one or two outthere, which tell u i came here by accident or i´m just here for the forums or my car broke down right infront of a pc-shop. Well actually it doesn´t really matter what we all came here for in the beginning, but it seems to be somethin mystic in this place that keeps us here, eather for our sarch or the forums or... .

Lutz
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Aug 16, 2006 12:07 PM CST What You Didn't Say.....
slicktrix
slicktrixslicktrixHagerstown, Maryland USA3 Threads 84 Posts
yeah...I'm here for the 'or'rolling on the floor laughing
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Aug 16, 2006 12:41 PM CST What You Didn't Say.....
Justadreamerhere
JustadreamerhereJustadreamerhere39 Threads 3,444 Posts
or maybe we dont seem honest because we dont really know what it is we want? or feel? not trying to actually lie...but being honest with ourselves can sometimes be the issue, not because we are a liar.

i dont think i ever tell you what you WANT to hear Urs. i say it even if u wont like it...

so what is it that wasnt said?
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Aug 16, 2006 12:41 PM CST What You Didn't Say.....
iRon12345
iRon12345iRon12345Tempe, USA35 Threads 2,473 Posts
One of the key factors to good communication is trust. We are a society of non-trusting people and if you can’t believe me you can not truly communicate with me and that may have nothing to do with me or who I am. It’s based on a reality of self and life experience of each person. We are constantly lied to by the media, the news, government officials, our parents i.e. you find out you were born 2 mouths before they were married and when your are a beautiful lady guys will lie to you about anything to get your paints.
Not that’s right it is just way it is.

The bottom line is communication without trust is just Blah Blah Blah and then the other person hears want they want to here.

The belief of the other person is lying creates an inability to listen. Reading between the lines is to me, another way not believing what is being said and not taken at face value.

It is sad that it has come to this. That all just don’t tell the truth but trust must be earned and proven before good and honest communication can ever begin.

Ron
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Aug 16, 2006 1:08 PM CST What You Didn't Say.....
wikked
wikkedwikkedAjax, Ontario Canada655 Threads 4 Polls 6,091 Posts
Oh no..Kris...I have no doubt in my mind you would call it as you see it and tell me straight up...laugh

I was remembering the conversation we had this morning...and how in that conversation i had last night with that person he had said so much more to me by what he didn't say...except i didn't see it until you pointed it out to me....
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Aug 16, 2006 1:10 PM CST What You Didn't Say.....
Lonnley
LonnleyLonnleyPhoenix, Arizona USA4 Threads 28 Posts
can anybody tell me the best way to find ms.right????confused confused dunno
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Aug 16, 2006 1:16 PM CST What You Didn't Say.....
chrissy87
chrissy87chrissy87Findlay, Ohio USA38 Threads 998 Posts
Just keep posting.Even if you don't find Ms. Right at least you should gain some pretty cool friends.conversing
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Aug 16, 2006 1:28 PM CST What You Didn't Say.....
wikked
wikkedwikkedAjax, Ontario Canada655 Threads 4 Polls 6,091 Posts
Try being "Mr. Wrong"...we all seem to fall for him...doh
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Aug 16, 2006 1:29 PM CST What You Didn't Say.....
chrissy87
chrissy87chrissy87Findlay, Ohio USA38 Threads 998 Posts
rolling on the floor laughing
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Aug 16, 2006 1:35 PM CST What You Didn't Say.....
iRon12345
iRon12345iRon12345Tempe, USA35 Threads 2,473 Posts
Why is that? And I have searched the threads, reading and many hours of thinking and talking so I personally come to the anawer that it is the way it is dunno dunno dunno
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Aug 16, 2006 1:43 PM CST What You Didn't Say.....
arabella
arabellaarabellaNear Farmington, Maine USA98 Threads 1 Polls 6,199 Posts
I've learned that if a person doesn't say something, and you were hoping they would, or expected that they would, it's more telling about how they feel than the things they did say.

If I guy doesn't say I love you, assume he doesn't dunno

Better to have a person who steps up and speaks out than one who is not invested enough to do so....
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Aug 16, 2006 1:47 PM CST What You Didn't Say.....
Lonnley
LonnleyLonnleyPhoenix, Arizona USA4 Threads 28 Posts
you are right on that one you try to be the niciest guy you can and they leave for the ones that beat them. that is not directed to all women. I got love for the ones that want a nice guy.blushing cheers
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