new and new in a relationship with aspie

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hello everyone,
i'm very glad to have found this site. i'm here to find more information/suggestions/advice to help me love the person i'm with more comprehensively. i'm still learning about him and i am learning so much about myself. when we get into arguments, he tells me that i need to be less emotional and more logical because he cannot focus on what i'm saying, and if i don't make logical sense, he continues to add to his argument (which makes me more frustrated and emotional--even though he is right on target!)

btw,, i've learned some things already by reading some of the old posts.

=] corkyviolet

Yep. You'd get further along in your relationship if you can keep your pesky emotions in check. That's for sure.

I'm new too, and that sounds exactly like to the kind of issue I have with my aspie boyfriend. He tends to write off a lot of what I have to say if any of it is founded in emotion and insists on being 'logical', and can be pretty dominating in a discussion at that. Pretty much the biggest issue between us.

Are you looking to love more comprehensively, a man who needs you to be less emotional?

yes, my "pesky emotions".... i can dig that. i am an emotional person, and i remind him of this fact, but i also understand how my emotions can get in the way of some debates/arguments we have (because some of his ideas/facts are true and ignite my emotions).

i am learning to gauge the emotional factor in my responses, and if they are completely emotional (sounds weird), i simply say, "I understand". it's become an inside joke for us. =]

i'm not seeing him wanting me to be aware of my emotions as a need-- i see it more as a desire. we get along wonderfully, and we can talk things out when we do our AAR (after action review). i am learning to love with more awareness of his desires, which is how i want to comprehensively love him....

Welcome to Wrong Planet!

Welcome to Wrong Planet!

thank you, AA and DR. =]