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just before i moved away, i met a woman, and she was desperate for someone to talk to. she has a terrible marriage, abusive husband, she is in therapy etc. but all she does is COMPLAIN about the same things over and over! and no matter how much advice she gets to stand up for herself etc, she says "i know, you are right, you are so right"....she continues the same behavior.
i feel sorry for her though! she has 2 kids, and its hard to start a new life with 2 babies when no one can offer any help.
Yes. I began a casual conversation with another mother outside our 2nd grader's classroom one day years ago. She was very nice. We talked a few more times at school and then she asked my daughter to come over and play with her daughter. They had a few play dates after school, couple at the park, one at my house, one at her house. I thought everything was going well. I knew this woman was going through a bad divorce and thought she just needed a new friend. I was just coming out of a bad divorce and felt like "giving back" for all the nice things people had done for me during a difficult time.
Anyhow...after a few weeks of play dates, the mother asked me if I would watch her daughter for a weekend while she went away with this new guy she was dating. I agreed. The daughter was a total pain the entire weekend! She would go into my kitchen after dinner and just start fixing food for herself. She complained about everything. She fought with my daughter over every toy, game to play etc. My daughter kept complaining and asking when this child was going to go home. We were all miserable.
After that weekend the mother continued to ask me every time she had a date if her daughter could spend the night. Every weekend she had her daughter turned into her wanting me to babysit. I felt sorry for the child and for her but our daughters really didn't even like each other at this point and I was being used.
I finally just quit saying yes, quit calling her, quit answering my phone when she called. I did everything to drop a hint and she wouldn't get it. It took almost two years for her to really stop calling.
I tell my mother many times that I just want to slap her for making me so nice....Ok so all my posts don't show that but I am...
At work here we have a rather eccentric person in the office..she and her husband have been married 40+ years, no children and to be honest no friends.
She is so hard up for someone to talk to if someone is talking anywhere in the office, she will get up out of her chair and try to get into the conversation.
While she's annoying, she has a heart of gold and I just can't be harsh to her.
Sadly, even the fake typing doesn't faze her.
I stopped being that way. I refuse to be miserable because of someone else. the moment I see someone annoying me I ignore them. I don't smile or laugh. And I look at them with the blankest face possible. And I make sure to look like I have things to do.
I tell my mother many times that I just want to slap her for making me so nice....
Exactly! My mother's favorite comment is, "There's no excuse for being rude or mean." I have always tried to live by that. It is really hard with some people! You know the saying, WWJD? (What Would Jesus Do?) I always ask myself WWMT? (What Would Mother Think?)
Yep sure have. I finally told her to go away until she got he head on straight. She was never happy about anything and even if something good happened she wound still find a way to ***** about it.
Exactly! My mother's favorite comment is, "There's no excuse for being rude or mean." I have always tried to live by that. It is really hard with some people! You know the saying, WWJD? (What Would Jesus Do?) I always ask myself WWMT? (What Would Mother Think?)
OMG..we were separated at birth! I'm going to pass this one on to my sister!!!
Yes. But it's really tough to make it happen sometimes.
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