yeah, i’m not demonizing OP but i truly believe once she gets some distance she will realize ‘shit. i knew he was married’ and thats when she will truly start to move on. it’s not as simple as the BF being an emotionally abusive asshole (he is!!!!!) i dont mean to sound victim blaming but OP had an active role in…
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It’s amazing how similar the stories are, and feelings produced. I’m sorry you experienced a person like that. I was reading your comment while listening to, and enjoying, the one song I HADN’T been able to listen to since things imploded with her. We listened to it together a ton at the beginning. I couldnt for…
Good God. If this guy was in a movie script or novel the editor would insist he be rewritten because he was such a cliche`.
It’s NOT DUMB to believe somebody when they say they love you! Normal, non-sociopaths only say that to people they truly care about, and he knows it. He gets away with this shit because he’s good at it. And he’s an empty shell so he can project whatever the person he’s with might fancy.
You can and will be. I was at least a good 10 years older than you when it happened. I imagine as well that if you had called it quits first you might be feeling a lot better about it. A lot of what your feeling has to do with the rejection. I know that even if someone who I don’t even like that much breaks it off…
I completely agree with you. I am a Bernie supporter, I voted for him and would do so again if the contest was tomorrow. But it wasn’t about the man, it was about the principles. Hillary won, and it’s time to do what is right for the country. I remember, 8 years ago, when a vocal minority of Hillary supporters acted…
I’m glad you’re beginning to realize he didn’t love you, not truly. Maybe he wanted your love, because it made him feel good, powerful, etc. But he didn’t truly love you, because you don’t do this to someone you truly love or care about.
Tell your mom that was never so. Not that she was lying or anything, she was clearly genuinely happy for you, but mourning a lie isn’t going to help you. It’s totally normal for her to be sad and angry for you, of course! But constantly going over “your secret language” and other shit he cooked up as sheer…
First off: The whole situation sucks, and it is not your fault. The guy is a manipulating shitass.
Off topic, but I recall a conversation with a guy when we were working down range. He looked like he had a rough night and when I asked what was wrong he went off on how his wife had been acting ‘crazy’ all night and they’d been in a terrible fight. So I asked what prompted it, without missing a beat he said “Oh, she…
I put a lot of blame on him for allowing the braying pack of Bernie Bros to take over the campaign to the extent that they did. If he’d denounced the misogyny earlier, and if he’d quit sooner when it became glaringly apparent it wasn’t going to happen, a lot of the fracturing might not be happening now.
I was pissed at Bernie for that at first but now I believe that he was holding out in order to get his ideas on the platform. And it worked. So I forgive him because his ideas, frankly are really needed. Now I hope that his Bernsters will put on their big boy panties and start championing ideas instead of people.
Corruption existed, that’s as clear as day, and I hope there’s an investigation about it - not sure which entity or institution would be able to carry it out. It’d be important to figure out how damaged Bernie’s success in the primaries was because of it.
+1 The Slot gets hectic sometimes! I actually ventured (way) outside my comfort zone and commented on Gawker during the convention coverage. It was surprisingly tame last week. I do miss Jez political coverage. The new silo-ing model has lots of celeb gossip (really not my thing) less substantial articles and less…
I think to get ungreyed there I would have to be early commenting on articles, but I never see the articles until they are crossposted. Even here, the only way I got ungreyed was by bugging Burt until she did it just to shut me up. They should ungrey everyone who is not a troll. It’s weird that they put this system in…
The issue is that The Slot is often cross posted to Gawker, and all the trolls then join in.
Can’t give the DNC high marks either. There were definitely some shady shenanigans going on so there is a basis for people to be upset but at this point they have to move on. I’m just afraid we’re going to get the fucking Nadar effect that gave us Bush with people voting for Jill Stein.
It’s also the anonymity. People feel free to get ugly because it’s not face to face. And let’s face it, Trump strait up just encourages hatred. He fucking revels in it. I blame some of this on Bernie but Trump is really the problem and I’m incredibly frightened that he might win.
I wonder if the lack of friendliness is because of the subject matter and the holy fuckness of this election cycle? It’s pretty grim and people are tense.