Jilted!??!!! How dare they!!

[Zephyr of Darkness]

Some time ago I read an article based on Jung's psychology about how women that had had bad relationships with their fathers behave toward men. Hell, it depicted me EXACTLY!!! What I thought it was a thoughtful and conscious behavior turned out to be a mere mechanism, me being just a slave of my unsolved emotions. I froze in awe when I saw that, and knew right away that I HAD to change before trying anything again. BTW, did you do some kind of psychological work to improve?

I'm always terribly paroniod about that sort of thing. I don't like the idea of machinised minds. That's one of the reasons I've set out to proove Robert Winston and the Child of Our Time chaps (BBC series, Google it) wrong by becoming a bigger success than Winston. I scored 44 on a "how successful you have the potential of becoming" test, which was "well on your way", but toward the lower half. I think you had to get 70 and you'd be "much better than I am" according to the Doctor. It was the damned Music bit. I got zero out of ten on that.

Sorry, could you give me a direct link? Anyway, I chose my current sig because of it. I had some odd inner experience, and couldn't decide what I was actually feeling. I had this Theodore Roethke poem's fragment in one of my favorite books, Romancing the Shadow, and decided to use it as sig. Which I is I? I sometimes can't tell. I don't know which is the real me sometimes.

Nope, no work to improve. I just pick my battles and bite my tongue. If it's not worth fighting about, I tend not to engage the enemy. My family is a family of fighters, though. If the other person won't fight, we'll bait them into it. Really cruel, actually, but at least it's intellectually stimulating!

Seems awfully simple, but wise. Yeah, my family's like that too. My mother takes stuff as people dirtying the grass or noisy cars with the zeal of a boss battle. I've learned to not pay attention to all that.

Well it just goes to show you how controlling some people can really be. Personally, I'm not a fan of exercising extreme control over other people. The more in check you try to keep something, the less control you end up having. Just look at uber-restrictive parents; their kids are usually in juvie by the time they're 16.

You're right, but like I said, it's not common. Besides, I've been born and raised in a Latin culture, where people are extremely controlling, especially guys. I know it myself cuz I'm extremely jealous too.
And what's juvie?

Again, I commend you for not "settling for less" just to have a relationship. It's sad to see how many people do that and end up being miserable.

Thank you, you know I won't.

Hee hee.... *blushes* thanks for the compliment, but I'm nothing nearly that special.

I think you are. You've tried to go past the surface in your life, and gave it a deep thought too. Just that makes you special. Not like the countless masses of sheeps that never question anything in their lives. And you try to keep a good relationship and I think it's not just in the surface, like most people do. Am I right?

And Mullen, you fight the power, bro. Personally, I'm also a fan of proving supposed "scientific proof" utterly wrong. I'm already shattering the belief that video games turn the brain and social life to mush.

I know the second, but most of us are simply machines controlled by our emotions. I learned that the hard way.