JohnSavy: I find the first impression being correct most of the time. I say in my mind, I am going to stay open and not make up my mind but after few months/years, I arrive to the same conclusion as my first impression. Love at first sight may be a fantasy but trust your first impression.
I think when people don't trust their intuition/first impressions, that's when trouble can brew, and the ol' red flags spoken about on this thread, get missed even though they may wave furiously.
Johnwain: Rather than love I'd call it attraction at first sight or instant infatuation.It can happen even 10 times a day if in the right environment...
I have a friend who recently met someone who claims to love her after meeting her only twice, though apparently he was struck after first meeting. So she's convinced he's a total crack pot. But after this thread, I'm gonna tell her to give him a chance. Never know...
In some chats with friends yesterday about this very topic, they brought up the difference between Eastern and Western ways of approaching love:
The West subscribes to "live with someone you love".
venere08: I have a friend who recently met someone who claims to love her after meeting her only twice, though apparently he was struck after first meeting. So she's convinced he's a total crack pot. But after this thread, I'm gonna tell her to give him a chance. Never know...
In some chats with friends yesterday about this very topic, they brought up the difference between Eastern and Western ways of approaching love:
The West subscribes to "live with someone you love".
well I'm pretty sure there are quite a few people who mistake an infatuation with love and the other way round.A very close friend of mine used to have 7 girlfriends for a while and used to say he loved them all for different reasons.Then one Sunday morning he ditched them all cos he said he missed his freedom and wanted to get to know some new one...:-) He's hell of a lover,isnt he ?
Johnwain: well I'm pretty sure there are quite a few people who mistake an infatuation with love and the other way round.A very close friend of mine used to have 7 girlfriends for a while and used to say he loved them all for different reasons.Then one Sunday morning he ditched them all cos he said he missed his freedom and wanted to get to know some new one...:-) He's hell of a lover,isnt he ?
Yes, one made him breakfast in bed, the other openend up the morning paper for him, another warmed his towels when cold, yet another gave him an all over massage......Wot's not to love
Poor guy would have needed a break servicingpleasuring so many women!
GodsBlessing: Like i say no one stay's through the worst times any more. No wonder our children of today have no sence of TRUE FAMILY COMMITMENT I am sorry for what happen to him an you i know you loved him but after all that time you leave? Sorry just dont understand?
I didn't leave. He did. Without a word. He just didn't come home one day almost 5 years ago. He left about 6 weeks after our middle daughter died. He used her death as an excuse to dump me for another woman.
He had survived 5 head injuries during our marriage and ended up with a diagnosis of "acute bipolar paranoid schizophrenic with abusive tendencies". When he left, I was too devastated by the loss of our daughter to even care. Once I realized he wasn't coming back, it just didn't matter any longer.
imsophie1: I didn't leave. He did. Without a word. He just didn't come home one day almost 5 years ago. He left about 6 weeks after our middle daughter died. He used her death as an excuse to dump me for another woman.
He had survived 5 head injuries during our marriage and ended up with a diagnosis of "acute bipolar paranoid schizophrenic with abusive tendencies". When he left, I was too devastated by the loss of our daughter to even care. Once I realized he wasn't coming back, it just didn't matter any longer.
I've worked with people having aquired brain injury. What your ex husband sustained meant that it would have been so impossible for him to maintain any semblance of a normal relationship. I'm curious as to how he got on with the 'other woman', and how long that lasted. Assuming of-course, that she didn't have many problems of her own maksing out all of his!
You've certainly been through more than most, and I can understand well, how you would have been numbed to the fact he was no longer returning.
venere08: I've worked with people having aquired brain injury. What your ex husband sustained meant that it would have been so impossible for him to maintain any semblance of a normal relationship. I'm curious as to how he got on with the 'other woman', and how long that lasted. Assuming of-course, that she didn't have many problems of her own maksing out all of his!
You've certainly been through more than most, and I can understand well, how you would have been numbed to the fact he was no longer returning.
I have no idea how they actually got on together since I haven't seen him but once, shortly after he left. I can't imagine it lasted long since there aren't many women who would be willing or able to tolerate the problems (both mental and physical) that had been caused by his multiple head injuries.
Even now, I find myself not caring that he left me the way he did. I lived for too many long years in a hell not of my making. My middle daughter had survived 4 head injuries in the last 7 years of her life. When he left, his problems left with him. Good riddance! I'd have her back in a heartbeat (if I could), even with all her head injury problems.
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Sorry about the Vee, but as seen as I luv you I'm sure you will forgive me
Nothing ever to forgive of you, Vincenzo, carissimo dahrrrrlink
Carry on....