I liked Maude quite a bit.

We must extinguish it.

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Don't you think it would be worse to just abandon her? I think all she wants is a friend. I guess I'll have to see what today brings. She just confirmed. She is coming up this evening. I'm going to head out on my SSCX for a few hours. Clear my head a bit.

In all honesty, everyone's good intentions and advice aside, he has to follow his own heart . . . and he will, as you can see. The fact that it's dragging him down a gravel road is not getting through to him yet. When he finally reaches that tipping point he'll get fed up with the abuse and put an end to it, but not before. That's the nature of love.

Poor bastid!

Aren't you the same person that wanted the satisfaction of telling her to eff off?

I am going to say it again. Grow the hell up, Assassin. That also includes listening to all the folks whose advice was correct the first time around.

So why do several people here keep going back for another serving?

I am completely fed up with all of that. That is why I have decided to never get back with her. I just don't feel right abandoning her all together. Maybe we will decide separating entirely is our best option. Idk. I'll keep you all posted on the outcome of tonight. We can never get back together. I realize this.

Yeah, I did say that. I also at that time thought that her talks of suicide were nothing more than manipulative cries for attention. After what happened with RUokie's wife, I just can't abandon her. I am a compassionate person, and I want to be there for her. To be honest I don't think it would of really given me any satisfaction anyway. It would of just made me look like an ass.

I can't sat that it's my intent to provide any advice. Trying to help someone that's not ready to help themselves is the same stupid activity that he keeps falling victim to, among other things (although I still think that helping her is a pretense).

SA, be careful about her suicide comments. Her words seem manipulative. In my incredible limited experience, the folks that throw around threats are fishing for attention. The two people that I know that did it gave no indication that I ever saw. I lost a coworker years ago, and I had spent several hours laughing and working on something with him. Everything seemed fine. A few hours later he was dead. Now, I wasn't close with the guy, but no one would have ever expected it.

She continues to manipulate your emotions.

Terribly sorry to disappoint. And this particular spinoff got cancelled after the pilot anyway - a text arrived while I was in the shower after the group ride. Apparently she had a guy friend over last night, nothing was happening, then woke up this morning naked and with some missing time. Doesn't trust herself with ANY guys now, so back to square one. Goddamn. On so many levels.

Minor problem that's totally fixable - go for it.

What? Did she get roofied or just blackout drunk?

Fixable how? I told her I really liked her and hoped I hadn't contributed to that feeling, and to let me know if she got more comfortable and wanted to go out again. Got nothing back after that.

Amateurs.

Oh, and about my screen name, it's a holdover from before I had gotten on Lexapro. I'm much better now, but haven't spun up a new screen name.

I'm honestly not sure. She liked drinking, certainly, but with me she didn't seem inclined to go so overboard as to black out.

Needs more electrical tape.

I'm kidding while poking fun at Solo's similar attempts to fix a trainwreck of a person.

I wouldn't take her account at face value. Just move along.

I'm 20 minutes in to my first full day @ a desk job. Not sure if I can endure the deskiness of it all but hopefully lunchtime bike ride ameliorates.

On Sunday?

Odd day of the week to be starting a desk job.

I'm running short on server storage, so I'm going through some of my ripped/stored blu rays - in many instances, it looks like I can free up 10-20GB *per movie* by getting rid of trailers, special features and alternate languages. I almost never watch that stuff, anyway.

Did you bring the trainer to the cubicle?