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Old 11-05-2011, 08:12 PM
 
Location: Denver
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What would you have done differently in your relationships..with time, hindsight and wisdom (hopefully! )
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Old 11-05-2011, 08:15 PM
 
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1. speak up for myself sooner
2. get out sooner
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Old 11-05-2011, 08:16 PM
 
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Met my wife sooner.

And not blown the $32,000 question on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire.
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Old 11-05-2011, 08:18 PM
 
Location: Tennessee
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Ask for a "maid service."
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Old 11-05-2011, 08:19 PM
 
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I don't beleive in doing things over.

I think the choices I've made in my life have led me to where I'm at right now. I'm not sure I'd appreciate and value certain things if I had made different choices in the past.
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Old 11-05-2011, 08:46 PM
 
Location: Homeless
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I don't beleive in doing things over.

I think the choices I've made in my life have led me to where I'm at right now. I'm not sure I'd appreciate and value certain things if I had made different choices in the past.


Agreed. Even though there are time's I wish I could go back say 20 be able to spend the last 20 with my current Gf. Then again perhaps it wouldn't of worked out & it wasn't out time. Maybe we were supposed to learn something that we didn't know before.
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Old 11-05-2011, 08:59 PM
 
Location: Bellingham, WA
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Better communication with one particular partner would have been a good idea. But in retrospect, I'm not sure I'd change anything. I'm fairly content as the person I am now, and those good AND bad memories helped shape me.
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Old 11-05-2011, 09:04 PM
 
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I wouldn't do anything about my previous relationships. The mistakes made, whether mine or not, happened for a reason.

What I wished I could do is go back to HS and tell a girl what I felt about her. So many chances I let slip by with that girl. Relationship wise, not sex.

Now she's married and happy, which is what matters.
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Old 11-05-2011, 09:16 PM
 
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1. Would have focused less on academics at college (very *long* story, but certain life circumstances at the time forced me to focus almost solely on academics, and at the exclusion of all else), and spent more time finding a marriage-minded, LTR-style relationship, even if my academics had suffered as a result.

2. Not gotten involved in very first relationship (with a psychotic, emotionally-abusive sociopath). Wish I could have avoided that horrific episode entirely. Still feel utter revulsion to this day, when I think about it. Wish I would have ran for the hills, instead.

3. Not hired a dating coach for a little over a year, who completely ripped me off, didn't deliver anything concrete at all except #2 above, and used psychological tricks and traps to keep me as a paying customer as long as she did.

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Old 11-05-2011, 11:21 PM
 
Location: Due North of Potemkin City Limits
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Not hired a dating coach for a little over a year, who completely ripped me off, didn't deliver anything concrete at all except #2 above, and used psychological tricks and traps to keep me as a paying customer as long as she did.
Was she hot? If so, shame on you for not nailing her.
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