We have free public hospital treatment here in Australia and in general the system works fairly well. For the USA, such a system should be restricted to US citizens. It should not include the 33 million or so illegals, because that cost would break the system . . . just as it is said to have wrecked the school systems in various places.
Lively Waters, ignore them and do your own thing. I have found that the most obnoxious and intolerant people are those who preach tolerance. I should also mention that so far the only people who have banned me from threads have been religious fanatics and social liberals.
Call him and lay it on the line. When you want a man to know something you have to tell him. We do not do subtle. We are not equipped by play the mind games that women play. As for men closing themselves off emotionally, yes, women do a pretty good job of making us do that. When I was 21 a girl broke my heart in a way that would make a great soap-opera script. It affected me so much that I have not been able to love another woman. I am now 54. That part of the software was deleted from the operating system. I did not know anyone could feel the sort of emotional pain that I did. I think that the mind deleted those files as a self-defence mechanism.
I have stared into the eyes of eternity a couple of times. Each time I thought that I was going to die. Looking down the wrong end of a Kalashnikov will do that to a person. What surprised me was that I was not afraid to die. Just luck of the draw that I did not. I also have a serious case of depression, though I do not consider it to be a disorder. As best I can work out I have been 'ill' since childhood. I have found that severe depression actually gives a greater clarity of perception and thought and leads one to look at the deeper philosophical issues. Many times I have sat with a pistol, reciting Hamlet's soliloquy . . . One day Odin will call me.
Goatee, since you state that you are so concerned about people who try to manipulate the weather for their own purposes, you had best take up the matter with the United States Government, which has been experimenting with weather manipulation as a weapon for at least half a century. Some people are convinced that the US is capable of causing floods, droughts, hurricanes and even earthquakes. Quite a bit has been writtne on the subject.
Goatee1120, I say again: you are certifiably insane. You also give every indication that you are both ignorant (as in lacking in knowledge) and not the sharpest tool in the shed.
Jeddah, women who look like the girls and women in the pix at the top of the page are not on sites such as this. They have no need of these sites. The photographs are bait to extract money from gullible men.
Just be yourself, Sweetiefireball. Do not pretend to be something or someone whom you are not. To do so is to live a lie. As Shakespeare wrote: "To thyne own self be true." If they do not like you for who you really are, it was not going to work anyway.
What you say in your post is consistent with the signs of clinical major depression. Ask your doctor for a referral to a psychiatrist. Depression can be treated and is more common than you may think.
Welcome to the vast majority of humanity, whose romantic relationships have not worked out as they had hoped. Some of us have not been able to find anyone at all, so know the pain of lonliness and rejection. I would suggest that, instead of rolling into a ball and focussing on the pain, you do a few things to take control of your situation. 1. Read what the medical literature has to say about love. Once you understand what it love is, it becomes easier to cope because you get things into perspective. Love is a delusional state created by endorphins that are released as part of the mate bonding process. A so-called broken heart is actually cold turkey drug withdrawal. Nothing more, nothing less. 2. Do not accept second best in relationships, or any aspect of life. 3. Write a profile of your ideal man, then look around you for men who fit that profile. 4. Put yourself into social situations in which you are likely to meet men who fit the profile. 5. Specific to India, avoid men whose families have a history of bride burning, or think that sati is a tradition to be upheld. That was an attempt at humour, but from what I have read there is more than a grain of truth in that dark humour.
Welcome to the vast majority of humanity, whose romantic relationships have not worked out as they had hoped. Some of us have not been able to find anyone at all, so know the pain of lonliness and rejection. I would suggest that, instead of rolling into a ball and focussing on the pain, you do a few things to take control of your situation. 1. Read what the medical literature has to say about love. Once you understand what it love is, it becomes easier to cope because you get things into perspective. Love is a delusional state created by endorphins that are released as part of the mate bonding process. A so-called broken heart is actually cold turkey drug withdrawal. Nothing more, nothing less. 2. Do not accept second best in relationships, or any aspect of life. 3. Write a profile of your ideal man, then look around you for men who fit that profile. 4. Put yourself into social situations in which you are likely to meet men who fit the profile. 5. Specific to India, avoid men whose families have a history of bride burning, or think that sati is a tradition to be upheld. That was an attempt at humour, but from what I have read there is more than a grain of truth in that dark humour.
Since takemetofrance is so keen on food, may I suggest, dear Saskia, that while you are in Sydney you also visit Wildfire, which is next to Doyle's at Circular Quay.
The food is great and the wine cellar has to be experienced. It is possibly the best restaurant wine list in Australia. If you visit the Gold Coast I can give you a list of restaurants that will give you wonderful experiences.
If you want some facts that will rattle your cage, read these publications, if you have the intellectual honesty to be interested in the truth (which I doubt):
The Color of Crime is available as a free PDF via the linked website. It will explain why the Los Angeles police reacted the way that they did to Rodney King. The other two books can be purchased via Amazon.
"The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is 'What does a woman want?'" - from Sigmund Freud: Life and Work by Ernest Jones, 1953
Some of the greatest minds of history have been unable to answer the question posed by reacher61. I say do not waste your time and energy trying to answer the question. Just go your own way and be happy. If a woman wants to join you, fine. If not, think of all the money you saved and the legal liability you avoided.
You cannot buy love, but you can buy a reasonable faximile of it. I live in a city that has a lot of rich old men who have beautiful young trophy wives. Of course those 20 and 30 something stunners married those wealthy old men for love.
I should also add that I no longer 'spend my time looking for the one worth waking up to'. That proved to be a most unproductive investment of time and other resources. I have had to come to terms with the reality that there is nobody out there for me. Such is life.
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RE: Universal Healthcare
We have free public hospital treatment here in Australia and in general the system works fairly well.For the USA, such a system should be restricted to US citizens. It should not include the 33 million or so illegals, because that cost would break the system . . . just as it is said to have wrecked the school systems in various places.