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Old 01-24-2009, 07:53 PM   #31 (permalink)
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old fashioned guy - if thats the case - im gonna have to turn lesbian.
The company you keep says a lot about you. Unless, of course you are referencing that you only have girl friends.
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Old 01-25-2009, 10:11 AM   #32 (permalink)
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The company you keep says a lot about you.
ive ad enough of the male species
for the moment.
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Swedish is easily overexcited, we have to pick our words carefully
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Old 01-26-2009, 05:26 PM   #34 (permalink)
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ive ad enough of the male species
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At one point, I had this idea to start lesbian island and move there...no men allowed...but every man that found out about it wanted to come along...squashed that fantasy for me...but that's okay, I'm feeling better about the male species now...feel free to borrow the fantasy if it helps you through this slump
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It's a line and tactic she's using on me Swedish, and no I am not going to play the mr. can I make it all right for you card, that we aren't all bad....... I could just as easily say that with the women that have taken me for a ride, I don't because I know they are not all the same and I don't need sympathy.
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I've seen it all over the forums here (myself included) that people will build up 'walls' to protect themselves emotionally if they've been hurt in the past. For me, letting that go was what brought me peace and happiness.

In the dating scene, I would think it's important once things get more serious, to figure out whether it's a barrier holding the person back from being able to fully give themselves in a relationship, or just being smart, cautious in an online relationship. I met my husband online, but went from emails to phone calls to a few months later, meeting in person, but we lived about an hour from one another so we could take things slow.
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I've seen it all over the forums here (myself included) that people will build up 'walls' to protect themselves emotionally if they've been hurt in the past. For me, letting that go was what brought me peace and happiness.
I never put up a barrier deliberately; I thought I was the most open guy on the planet. Eventually I realised that I was what is know in the psycho-jargon as "heavily armoured". In other words, I never let anything get to me, and I kept everyone at a distance. I felt OK most of the time, but I later realised that was because I was feeling almost nothing. Apart form sex of course Did I mention the sex?

Nowadays, I have these things called emotions... Hmmm

So I have moved on a bit from those days, but still have further to go.
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So I have moved on a bit from those days, but still have further to go.
I can relate to that one--it's not an easy thing to change.
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I can relate to that one--it's not an easy thing to change.
In my case, my barriers have nothing to do with my wife, and everything to do with my childhood.
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i just wish that the one expectation from the list that i truly believed in,
FAITHFULNESS, was the only one on my list that i ever wanted and i never got.
yet i was and remain always faithful .

I hear that! It seems that is too much to even ask for.....
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