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Yes just show a creationist all the evidence supporting Evolution and you will get what you have just described.
Please post the study if you can find it. I would love to share it with the creationists.
LOL... you just presented my point, but I'm sure a smart woman like yourself can see that...
Do you realize that most people never come around when they are presented with valid and meaningful contrary evidence. Some study came out recently about it, most people just stubbornly cling to their views as if they are some kind of child......
But you're the exception, right?
I've always been the "learn the lessons the hard way" kind of person. Someone(parent, friend, family member, therapist) can tell me the right way to do something, but until I realize it myself by having the wrong way kick me in the teeth, I won't really learn why something is either "right" or "wrong." I think most people are like that.
So, I have a question for you, Chowhound, and I promise I will do exactly what you tell me to do. Should I, as a slightly co-dependent person, continue dating or should I refrain from dating until I get my issues resolved? If you tell me to refrain from dating I will immediately cancel all dates, focus on being single and never post in this thread again. I promise.
I've always been the "learn the lessons the hard way" kind of person. Someone(parent, friend, family member, therapist) can tell me the right way to do something, but until I realize it myself by having the wrong way kick me in the teeth, I won't really learn why something is either "right" or "wrong." I think most people are like that.
The problem with this is your hard lessons are being taken out on unsuspecting women. That's why you should step away from the dating scene until you resolve your issues.
The problem with this is your hard lessons are being taken out on unsuspecting women.
Poor, unsuspecting woman. They're just the victims of this brutal monster. Oh, the humanity! How have women survived all these years with men like me running around unleashing my co-dependency on them?
I've always been the "learn the lessons the hard way" kind of person. Someone(parent, friend, family member, therapist) can tell me the right way to do something, but until I realize it myself by having the wrong way kick me in the teeth, I won't really learn why something is either "right" or "wrong." I think most people are like that.
So, I have a question for you, Chowhound, and I promise I will do exactly what you tell me to do. Should I, as a slightly co-dependent person, continue dating or should I refrain from dating until I get my issues resolved? If you tell me to refrain from dating I will immediately cancel all dates, focus on being single and never post in this thread again. I promise.
I'm not the smartest man in the world, but I'm getting a feeling that I've just been served up with a big ol' sarcasm sandwich over here.
Poor, unsuspecting woman. They're just the victims of this brutal monster. Oh, the humanity! How have women survived all these years with men like me running around unleashing my co-dependency on them?
So in addition to being in denial about your horrible behavior, you deny that it affects the women you treat this way. You're a piece of work.
So in addition to being in denial about your horrible behavior, you deny that it affects the women you treat this way. You're a piece of work.
Has there even been one instance that I have denied that I'm codependent and exhibit codependent behavior? I don't think so. I'm not going to be cast as some abusive perpetrator against women because that could not be further from the truth. I have never been an abusive person and never will be.
Has there even been one instance that I have denied that I'm codependent and exhibit codependent behavior? I don't think so. I'm not going to be cast as some abusive perpetrator against women because that could not be further from the truth. I have never been an abusive person and never will be.
Knowing that you have huge relationship issues and continuing to date and foisting your relationship problems on unsuspecting women is bad behavior. You may not want to call it abusive, but others certainly would. The behaviors you mentioned upthread about talking at your date, getting personal, and pushing her, and refusing to stop yourself is, again, bad behavior. None of this will be fixed by you continuing to date, you will just continue to push these bewildered women away, hurt them, and then feel bad about yourself, and then get defensive when people call you out on your BS, just like you're doing now.
You know what you're doing is wrong and hurtful, and yet you refuse to stop. What would you call it if someone else did it to you?
I'm not getting defensive, I just don't like being called abusive. I very much respect women and I would never hurt them. One thing my wife of 18 years would never accuse me of is being abusive. I understand that my behavior can sometimes be off putting and maybe even strange, but abusive? No way. Yes, I was a little pushy with the Vegan in our last conversation. But at no point did it ever cross from uncomfortable into abusive territory. I'm cognizant enough to recognize when I've crossed that line. I'm not a sociopath, I'm just codependent.
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