what about the "entitlement" ones - the ones who cleaned out their ex-husbands bank accounts, ran up credit cards in their names, sold their personal belongings right before asking for a divorce - yet, they believe they are still entitled to be wined/dined and treated like royalty?
Hey guys, I tell you another characteristic of a woman I cannot stand are those that freak out on you. Most of the women I have dated or have had relationships with have been divorced, and still have scars from it.First, we open up communications, we e-mail each other, call each other, and the woman tells me her pity stories of her divorce and how all she wants to do is meet a nice guy. We have our first date, then after that she does now know what to think because she has never dated a nice guy/gentleman before. So, they freak out and drop off the face of the earth.
My last relationship was with a woman who has three daughters and two ex husbands. When we had our first date, she said all she wanted was to meet a nice guy. Things went great for the next four months, thenshe goes from saying "I love you" during her lunch hour at work to telling me it's all over that same night. Apparently, she is not fully recovered from her divorce from her ex husband, or so at least that is what she claims.
Here is another amusing one: A couple of weeks ago, I opened up communications with another girl. Once again, the same song and dance story of how bitter her divorce was, and how painful it was. We make plans to have out first date for a week later, we talk almost every evening on the phone, getting to know each other better. I really thought we had some chemistry. Then on a Thursday afternoon, she calls me to reconfirm our date for Friday. All seemed well. Then after I get back from Taekwondo class, there is an e-mail from her saying she has to cancel the date because it was exactly one year ago when she broke up with her ex husband, and the memories are still too fresh.
I know that freaking out is human nature, and its perfectly natural to freakout. Hell, even I freak out every once in a while. But, I don't give into my fears. I believe in giving a person a chance.
So, to all of the divorced women out there, when you meet a nice guy, all I ask is that you please give him a chance and don't freak out!!!!!
Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice, etc...
One thing I have learned with people like this is to not date them. Anyone who says nothing but negative things about there exes usually have issues of their own. I just stay away from these people. Nine times out of 10 they usually volunteer the information abt there ex relationships without it being just a direct response to an actual question. If I am proposed this question, many times I will just say we were not compatible and leave it at that. I don't mention every single bad thing that happened to me in that relationship. If a person needs to do that, they need to see a psychologist and not be dating.
"I haven't dated many divorcees, but the ones that I tend to run from are the ones who crow the most about how much they took their ex's for. "
I can't remeber ever talking to anyone divorced, male or female, who did not feel they got the short end of the stick. In face, if you talk to each one involved in the same divorce, it is hard to correlate the two stories...it is like they each see the other as an enemy. And neither has had to put a monetary value on support, equity or service.
Well, say "hello" to me. Finished with my second divorce and all I'll say is that they were good friendships that were damaged by being married. Even had my first ex over to my ap't and made her dinner for our first "divorcaversary." My second calls me up from time to time to help her put new furniture together. I still like her, just don't want to be married to her and be at the "effect" of her behavior.
2) Art Imitates Life Woman-This is the woman who has seen "Bridget Jones's Diary" and its sequel more times than healthy and believes it to be a microcosm of her life especially with men.
A new manifestation: The woman who thinks "Eat, Pray, Love" is about her life.
I was recently chatting with a divorced mom I was really interested in getting a first date with. Then she makes the comment that she decided to start dating again because her daughter told her "Mommy, you need to find me a daddy."
Well . . . it's sad to see that wanting to spend lots of time with someone you like is "clingy" because I don't see myself even wanting to change much on this.
When I took Judo, Taekwondo, Karate classes . . . I always talked my husband into doing them with me. When he wanted to take a welding class at the university . . .I did the paperwork and signed us both up (I loved it . . .it was lots of fun). I hike almost daily and like him to come with me. He was starting rock climbing when we first met, I found it pretty scary, but stuck with it until I was pretty good (18 years). He wanted a sailboat and time to sail, I managed our money until we could afford one and talked him into taking winters off his job so that we could sail, which we did for seven winters, all winter long. He did find me clingy.
The article suggests the folks like myself have no life of their own. I prefer to look at it from the perspective that I love to do all sorts of things, and I don't mind doing the occasional boring thing if my spouse/boyfriend doesn't mind doing stuff he finds boring (but I love) with me sometimes. And I don't mind being left behind if it is truly something I will totally dislike. But, I do like lots of time spent with one person . . . I don't want tons of friends . . . I find it draining. I'm smart, athletic, attractive . . . surely there are some men out there that like a companion that wants to hang out with them a lot of the time and don't find it claustrophobic?
believe me, they're out there, it depends on the two of you, no? one ex-boyfriend and i would spend entire days together, do work together, and if i was at home doing housework/cooking he'd come over to my apartment and just hang out all day, he just liked hanging out with me - and i liked being around him too. he's still a great friend. and my husband and i love to do things together. the longer we're together the more we enjoy each other, the more we realize we appreciate each other's company, just each other's presence. and we like to do many of the same things. it's easy! why be with someone who's down on that? i like to do things alone too, and am not the type who'd be called clingy but the longer i'm married the more my husband and i find excuses to be together, even doing nothing.
Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice, etc...
One thing I have learned with people like this is to not date them. Anyone who says nothing but negative things about there exes usually have issues of their own. I just stay away from these people. Nine times out of 10 they usually volunteer the information abt there ex relationships without it being just a direct response to an actual question. If I am proposed this question, many times I will just say we were not compatible and leave it at that. I don't mention every single bad thing that happened to me in that relationship. If a person needs to do that, they need to see a psychologist and not be dating.
I think the reason they were breaking the date was something else, for example, they were making up excuses because he wasn't their type and they didn't realize it until it was too late and didn't want to hurt his feelings, or, they got asked out by someone they had their eye on for a while, so decided to cancel...
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Reason: didn't read the first message entirely
what about the "entitlement" ones - the ones who cleaned out their ex-husbands bank accounts, ran up credit cards in their names, sold their personal belongings right before asking for a divorce - yet, they believe they are still entitled to be wined/dined and treated like royalty?
You know people like this? Sounds like a character in a soap opera, not a real person!
Ok, here's my 2 cents. (as far as finding a new daddy, i'd run screaming!!) I recently divorced my husband for cheating on me and NO! I didnt take him for anything, I took nothing. I left him the house and everything in it, but my clothes and my china cabnet and this was after 14 yr's of marriage. Why? Because what good does cleaning him out do? It just makes things even worse. We dont call each other, but we get along good, plus I dont think his girlfriend would like it, lol. But if we run into each other we can talk about his boys or my daughter or whatever and be fine with it. Yes guy's, if you meet one like that, I would run to, but from my point of view sometimes it's very hard to trust again without having feelings of getting hurt again.(this goes for guys to) It's not always about being hung up on an ex. I'm not saying its right dont get me wrong, but if there is that much 'click' between you two and you really like this person(woman) then sometimes just stepping back to breath a bit can be all it takes to make sure you are both comfortable and agree with the way and speed of which things are progressing. Hope this helps someone out there..
I agree, cinnamon16, and these articles are so simplistic - when there's attraction, people don't care about what they usually avoid, the other person is just adorable, no matter what problems they have...
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