Joined: 2 Apr 2007 Age: 42 Gender: Male Posts: 8,565
10 May 2007, 6:57 pm
Na…I’’ve been too autistic (there’s the excuse again); most people want you to talk to them constantly, rather than just being happy in their presence [like me]. It’s most likely better for the majority of people who’ve liked me though…I rarely care about the trappings of modern society.
It’d just cause me pain ‘cause I’d force myself to be what I’m not to satisfy them…I guess that is lying to myself...I respect my integrity too much to want to do that to them and myself. I’ll probably do it eventually though…isn’t that what we do?
You see the hole in the ground due to insight but you jump into it anyway because everyone else did; rather than by accident; the outcome is the same....
Joined: 9 May 2007 Gender: Male Posts: 16 Location: Texas
12 May 2007, 12:35 am
I've had several meaningful relationships, so I suppose I've been lucky. But I've also run into a lot of situations where girls who are interested just can't handle how different life is with me once things actually get going. Gets frustrating.
It depends...what would you consider a "successful" relationship?
Yeah. This is what I'm wondering. I had a marriage which
was very happy for most of 12 years, but it ended, so
I'd term it unsuccessful. Non-permanence kind of blows
anything away, for me - so I'd imagine that almost any
human-human (being mortal) relationship is doomed to
this tag.
I have no idea. It's not a phrase I would usually use, but that's what I often hear from other people. I don't know what constitutes a successful relationship though, I guess it depends on how you interpret it. If you believe it was successful or not.
Joined: 9 Feb 2006 Age: 61 Gender: Male Posts: 1,476 Location: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
12 May 2007, 6:53 pm
If you count relationships that ended as unsuccessful, then none of mine were successful because they all ended. Though in two of the four, we parted on amicable terms, so maybe that would mean two of them were successful. Then again, I slept with only one of the two, so if success = sex, then I'm down to one. On the other hand, it was only in my most recent relationship that I felt there was a possibility of it becoming permanent, so maybe that's success? (It ended. Badly.)
So my answer is: I have no idea.
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