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- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 11:44:35 -0500
- From: "Todd C. Gleason" <tg2k+@andrew.cmu.edu>
- Subject: Re: I know she takes me for granted, but...
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- Excerpts from netnews.alt.romance: 15-Nov-92 I know she takes me for
- gra.. Brad Hill@cleveland.Free (1509)
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- > Subject: I know she takes me for granted, but...
- > From: ch617@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Brad Hill)
- > Date: 15 Nov 1992 11:44:08 GMT
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- > thing in return. I mean, one time I had a personal problem and started
- > telling her about it, and her response was: "Well, I think I'm going to
- > go to sleep now." She tells me (usually over the phone) how she
- > likes me more than "just about anyone else she can think of" when
- > I try to tell her I'd rather not carry on this one-way friendship.
-
- I know what you mean. Sometimes, people have a hard time giving back.
- I know I did for a while with one girl I know, but now I have little
- problem with telling her how much I want to see her and be with her, and
- she instead ignores *me*.
-
- > I think she knows I'm a nice guy, but has no interest in reciprocating.
- > She takes up a lot of my time and energy, and I really think there are
- > much better ways to spend them, so what do I do about her? It would
- > be worth it if I would get a friend in return, but do you think there's
- > a chance she'd change if I "not give up on her"? This is exactly what I
- > feel would happen if I cut her loose.
-
- > Are nice guys nice because they get something out of giving, even when
- > there's no return?
-
- Nice guys (I hope I am one) are nice because of the wild hope that being
- nice will be recognized for the virtue it is--which it often isn't. But
- we continue to be nice through rejection because we feel that somewhere
- out there is someone who will care for us and love us as much as we love
- them.
-
- The unfortunate thing is that most people with whom I want to have a
- deeply romantic relationship are either not attracted to me, are taken,
- or are only interested in sexual relationships. And vice versa, so it
- is not easy to love someone--especially when they may not feel compelled
- to reciprocate the sentiment, but to take you for granted. When this
- happens, you have a problem. I might be tempted to tell you to leave
- this person alone, but I don't think I could in your situation, because
- I'm not about to leave the girl *I* love, even though she loves me a lot
- less than the other men she is seeing. I'll wait around, and hope that
- she will see in me what I see in her, and just keep telling her that I
- love her. Hopefully, someday she will come around more than she is
- right now. . . .
- -=Todd Gleason=- My opinions are better than yours. . .
- -=Cool-Man=- . . . but only on Thursdays.
- My powers are beyond your understanding! | Picard: Our mission is to go
- SLEEP does not exist, does it? | forward, and it's just begun.
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