Wow, great reply, Lene. I am still finding ways that I was wrong with my ex. My deceased and I talked through so many things because of the things that I learned from my ex. My ex and I were married two times and the second time we learned more things that we didn't like about each other, lol. Sometimes, I even think I am turning into my ex which really scares me, lol. But then like they say, "if I would have known then what I know now" knowing me I would still make the same stupid mistakes or different ones, lol. When I was first on cs I was in so much of a rush but now I like learning for its own sake. I love poetry for its own sake. I love love for its own sake. I really love drama, too, lol. I think it is amazing how we all have our differences but share things in common, too. I like your last sentence best and think it is so true. If you are honest with someone like they want you to be with them and then they can't accept it then its their problem because they asked you to be honest with them.
Ever since my friend used the cajun barbecue sauce I have really loved it. My dad used to barbecue hawaiin style. You dig this pit and put the chicken in tin foil with potatoes and it cooks in the earth. A loua they call it. Not sure of spelling.
I think the term 'quality time' might be a good mention here. A comparison of quantity versus quality could be evaluated. But then a whole lot of quality might be the combination quanity and quality. So if you are spending whole lot of quality time with a special someone then the amount of quality time with friends would lessen theorhetically I would think. I still think a healthy dose of quality time with friends would still be good even if you met that special someone. I heard the word limerance on the radio today. According to the dj the honey moon period is good for about six months. I think it is good to have friends and that special friend.
I used to say I wear the pants in my family and my wife gave me permission to say that, lol. You can always say hell I don't know what do you think and have an interesting conversation for a while until they say well that place looks nice lets go eat there. By that time neither of you will really care because you are both hungry and could really care less where you eat just as long as you both get to eat because if you wait till one of you turns into a cannibal one of you will live to regret it, lol.
Beautiful poem and so true. If life teaches us anything it is life is all about learning. You can be a spectator in life or you can be an actor. We hopefully learn from our mistakes. Recovery is not about making mistakes but making new mistakes. Insanity is making the same mistakes over and over and expecting the outcome to be different. Don't be afraid to make mistakes because that is the way we all learn. Once you realize that you have made a mistake go ahead and admit it. Your friends will not think less of you but will be glad that you are growing. We are like children who are always growing and learning. We trip and fall but get back up and dust ourself off. We laugh at that silly person in the mirror and chuckle to ourself.
I like to talk to people who like to talk back. I can remember being a child and told don't you back talk me. And no matter what you said it was backtalking. So eventually you learn that talking is not good. So you go to school and the teacher asks you to raise your hand when you have a question. So you raise your hand like you are suppose to do and the other children look at your weird. So you learn to lower your hand. After many years of this bull you get in a relationship and you are told we need to talk. So you open your mouth to talk and then that is when all hell breaks loose, lol. So you learn that they need to talk and you just need to listen, lol.
Now ya'll pick your toys when you are done or I am going to lock them back up in the box, lol. If I step on one more toy when I get home then you won't get to play with your toys for a whole month, lol.
You will meet folks from all walks life on here. There are some right friendly neighbors here. Just feel free to pull up a chair and make yourself at home. There will be some more folks along directly. I hope you start to liking it here.
(1)The three little words are: "Hold On, Please..."
Saying this, while putting down your phone and walking off (instead of hanging-up immediately) would make each telemarketing call so much more time-consuming that boiler room sales would grind to a halt.
Then when you eventually hear the phone company's "beep-beep-beep" tone, you know it's time to go back and hang up your handset, which has efficiently completed its task.
These three little words will help eliminate telephone soliciting.
(2) Do you ever get those annoying phone calls with no one on the other end?
This is a telemarketing technique where a machine makes phone calls and records the time of day when a person answers the phone.
This technique is used to determine the best time of day for a "real" sales person to call back and get someone at home.
What you can do after answering, if you notice there is no one there, is to immediately start hitting your # button on the phone, 6 or 7 times, as quickly as possible ... This confuses the machine that dialed the call and it kicks your number out of their system. Gosh, what a shame not to have your name in their system any longer !!!
(3) Junk Mail Help: When you get "ads" enclosed with your phone or utility bill, return these "ads" with your payment. Let the sending companies throw their own junk mail away.
When you get those "pre-approved" letters in the mail for everything from credit cards to 2nd mortgages and similar type junk, do not throw away the return envelope.
Most of these come with postage-paid return envelopes, right? It costs them more than the regular 37 cents postage "IF" and when they receive them back.
It costs them nothing if you throw them away! The postage was around 50 cents before the last increase and it is according to the weight. In that case, why not get rid of some of your other junk mail and put it in these cool little, postage-paid return envelopes.
One of Andy Rooney's (60 minutes) ideas. Send an ad for your local chimney cleaner to American Express. Send a pizza coupon to Citibank. If you didn't get anything else that day, then just send them their blank application back! If you want to remain anonymous, just make sure your name isn't on anything you send them.
You can even send the envelope back empty if you want to just to keep them guessing! It still costs them 37 cents.
The banks and credit card companies are currently getting a lot of their own junk back in the mail, but folks, we need to OVERWHELM them. Let's let them know what it's like to get lots of junk mail, and best of all they're paying for it...Twice!
Let's help keep our postal service busy since they are saying that e-mail is cutting into their business profits, and that's why they need to increase postage costs again. You get the idea !
If enough people follow these tips, it will work ---- I have been doing this for years, and I get very little junk mail anymore.
I love spending time with my snugglebunny. I love getting messages from my kids. I think being in awkward situations with my ex makes me smile later, lol.
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I am happy for you, Laurie and your guy. Best wishes for you both. Love can be the foundation that dreams can be made of. The South shall rise, again.