That's a good point, and one I have to remind myself of sometimes. All my friends tell me, "dude, you're totally awesome and good looking!" But then they follow it up with, "you just need to gain 20 pounds." So that's always a fun hangup for me.

That is pretty generous of you, but if you really wanted to take the high road, instead of holding his hand it would have been nicer to hold his pillow. Over his face. For several minutes.

dayuuuuuuuum, you go girl!

That's actually a really good idea. I'm on 100mg each evening and tolerating it well. I wonder what 50/50 would be like.

As a fellow atheist (well, apatheist to be precise*), whenever someone wishes me something other than Happy Holidays or Happy Solstice, I whip my dick out and rub it all over their shopping bags.

Hey thanks :) Your advice about sleep is exactly what I had to do about a year ago.

Well, I'm about 40 miles south. I used to be in Kirkland, which is a smaller city right across the lake from Seattle, but the current job and budget-appropriate living is down here. I do try to get up there from time to time to see friends and ironically beat up hipsters.

Time to initiate communication with all bodies involved and get everyone's feelings on the table. You just jumped into crazy new territory and you don't want to wing it and cause things to spiral out of control.

You're certainly treading on really, really shitty ground.

I don't see how being a Pussy With Attitude would be a problem in dating.

Yeah, that's a bunch of bullshit right there.

I ended my LTR/LDR over that exact issue. We started out very close with consistent communication and then she just ... evaporated. I found out later it was a pattern with her. She had done it to all of her serious boyfriends. She has deep intimacy issues.

Thanks. It is really hard to recover your self-esteem in situations like that. I'm lucky that I am in a position to take care of myself and make good choices. I know a lot of people face far more challenge than I do.

Last week I resolved to nuke my home town when I drove by and saw a guy holding up a sign that said Obama's Apocalypse is coming.

Oh fuck those guys. I'm going to send in shock troops to force all them to look at pictures of people helping each other until their eyes bleed and their balls implode.

And thus, it was so.

Oh, well then I stand corrected. I will go get ready to welcome our new alien overlords.

I'm amazed there aren't more LOL replies here. Stunned, really.

Thank you. Marbles is somewhat lighter in tone when discussing bipolar. It is, for me, the most accessible material and incredibly useful for giving my friends insight to what my life is like.

I think you're right to feel the way you do. Your behavior is explained easily by stress, and he wants to chalk it up to a character flaw while fulling admitting his perspective is skewed by an ex.