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- From: dbt@cellar.org (Marquis de Freud)
- Newsgroups: alt.angst
- Subject: Neediness
- Message-ID: <1g5RXB4w164w@cellar.org>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 12:56:35 GMT
- Sender: bbs@cellar.org (The Cellar BBS)
- Organization: The Cellar BBS and public access system
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- I think a lot of people here have a neurotic, desperate need for love. Not
- that *I* am immune -- I may hold some kind of local record for romantic
- suckerdom in the Greater Philadelphia Area.
-
- At one certain point -- recently -- I "lost it". I stopped feeling so needy.
- I also began to be able to fight with women who were giving me grief. Not
- only fight, but hit (metaphorically) and make it hurt.
-
- Wanna know what? I don't get walked on any more. I don't "need" women and do
- not subject myself to the abusive ones. And at one point, I thought that
- there were *only* abusive ones.
-
- No, I haven't become a Legendary Babe Magnet, but I get along much better
- with women now, and people in general, and I no longer feel like a slime-
- mold for not being 50% of a couple. It's amazing what a little self- respect
- will do for ya.
-
- BTW, it's important to note, that while this is from the point of view of a
- poor dweeby Nice Guy who Got Hurt Alot, and couldn't even get laid in Las
- Vegas with his pockets stuffed with $100 bills, the same (or similar) message
- seems to apply to women. Why do women date jerks who abuse them? Probably for
- much the same reason why Nice Guys suffer what we do. As soon as women
- victims stop taking shit from jerks, they start getting respect.
-
- The only down side seems to be that there is less sex, less drama and less
- gossip to talk about. But the ability to feel good every so often WITHOUT
- cuddling up or having an orgasm is quite a thrill in itself.
-
- Well, enough of my pompous prolegomenations (ya like *that* one, does ya?).
- It's Friday, and I must mentally prepare myself to go out tonight and get
- emotionally abused. It's not so bad, really; I get to TALK BACK!
-
- Your Pal, the Ever-Pedantic Marquis de Freud, Legendary Babe Magnet in
- Training.
-
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