I also don't resond well to "don't cry." DH has decided that "there, there" is the most neutral comfort response.
Hmm. It's sounds like the finest party I can imagine getting paid to go to.
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Scrappy - Oct 08, 2009 7:27:12 am PDT #25727 of 30000
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Aims - Oct 08, 2009 7:29:27 am PDT #25728 of 30000
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Amy - insent.
Zenkitty - Oct 08, 2009 7:35:07 am PDT #25729 of 30000
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
I hear "don't cry" as a plea more than an instruction, so it doens't bother me, but I get why it would.
javachik - Oct 08, 2009 7:35:37 am PDT #25730 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.
Smonster, I am sorry about the middle-of-the-night troubles and crying. Totally been there and it sucks.
Can someone explain to me what an acquaintance wrote on my facebook status yesterday? I was annoyed by her comment, and haven't addressed it with her, but I want to make sure that I'm not missing something plain as day.
I wrote:
Steve moves to Boston in 4 weeks. I do not accept this premise. I know far too well about long-distance relationships. DO NOT WANT.
She wrote:
Nanita -- stop resisting - make it easier on yourself ;(
Any ideas on what she means?
Jessica - Oct 08, 2009 7:36:25 am PDT #25731 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I'd be annoyed too, Java. That's awfully cryptic.
§ ita § - Oct 08, 2009 7:37:26 am PDT #25732 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Any ideas on what she means?
I'd try and take it as harmlessly as possible, even though it is a bit ham-handed. I think she's trying to tell you to accept the inevitable and the emoticon is her trying to be nice about it.
javachik - Oct 08, 2009 7:39:30 am PDT #25733 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.
Well, her husband left her last year so I am guessing it's the kind of lesson she's been teaching herself. But our circumstances are so very different; my boyfriend has been looking for work for a year and a half in his field, and finally has found something - on the other side of the continent. I am not going to engage her on it, I don't think it be useful.
But, yeah. I was a little surprised to see it as a response to my status.
Calli - Oct 08, 2009 7:41:39 am PDT #25734 of 30000
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Any ideas on what she means?
I think it's nicey-nice speak for "Suck it up, buttercup." With a layer of for-your-own-good smoothed on top.
I'm also in A Mood today, so you should probably take my interpretation with a grain or 12 of salt.
javachik - Oct 08, 2009 7:43:17 am PDT #25735 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.
Calli, you nailed it. That's why it's a pisser.
Zenkitty - Oct 08, 2009 7:43:48 am PDT #25736 of 30000
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
Especially with the sad-face icon at the end, I bet she misinterpreted your "I do not accept this" "DO NOT WANT" more literally than you probably intended it to be, as in, actively resisting his move, rather than just really really not wanting it. Which, if it were true, would only be compounding your hurt over something that cannot be helped. I think she's wanting you to come to a place of accepting it and stop hurting yourself more, which would be dandy if you'd meant what she thought you meant.
eta Uh, yeah. What they said.