Karen over at A Peek at Karen't World posted a Wednesday Confessions today that I couldn't resist joining in on: Dating Confessions.
We've all done things we regret (or at least should regret) in the dating arena. Karen's were largely sins of omission - as in omitting acknowledgement of these boys' existances, ha. Mine,quite humorously regrettably, were probably a little worse. Before the most amazing man in the world won my heart and lured me (thankfully) out of the dating world, I was downright cruel not the nicest girl in the world.
MacGyver referred to my dating personna before I actually grew up a little and got serious with him as a sexual predator. OF COURSE NOT IN THE SAME CONTEXT AS CHILD PREDATORS. Ew, gross, wrong. But I may have, in fact, been a little bit predatory - but that was only if someone was stupid enough to class themselves as prey!
I never went out hunting for idiot guys to be mean to. I told them. I warned them. In some cases, I even had my friends warn them. I did not want to be anyone's girlfriend. I was not a nice girl. I would carry on a relationship with you without any concern at all for your feelings. Because I warned you ahead of time. But did they ever listen? Of course not. I seemed so innocent. I could never hurt them. Or they were going to "rescue" me. Gag me is more like it, ugh!
Now, I could delve into the possible reasons from my past that I sojoyously wrongly treated these boys the way I did, and there are some biggies. But really, I just found it interesting to see how much you could tell a person straight out that you were going to be mean to them and watch their own ego completely prevent them from taking you seriously. This is a tactic that works out pretty well in court, too.
Apparently, I'm supposed to give specific examples. Hmmmm . . . There are oh so many to choose from. My best friend from undergrad, the Producer's absolute favorite is this guy I had been dating for a couple weeks, to whom I had made the status of our relationship PERFECTLY CLEAR. We are not serious. We will never be a "real" couple. If you try to "relationship" me, I will come down on you with all due cruelty. We will just go out, have fun, no emotional attatchment, it will be laid back and fun. Did he listen? OF COURSE NOT!
One day, The Producer and I are sitting in our favorite Anthropology class, and this guy walks up to me. Shocked the heck out of me. In the couple weeks we had been dating, I never noticed he was in this class! Probably because The Producer and I sat off in our own corner and actually discussed class topics as opposed to the bubbly sorority crap that always seemed to be going on around us in that class. Seriously, if you don't want to take a challenging class, DON'T SIGN UP FOR ONE.
So, anyway, this guy walked up to us. We had a little strained small talk (strained because in the back of my mind I was already annoyed with guy talking to me like he was my “boyfriend” or something, introducing himself to The Producer- who, by the way knew exactly who he was- and so on). And then, he asks (quite presumptuously, if I do say so myself), “Don’t you think we should sit together?” (implying that either The Producer or I should move). Well, considering the circumstances, the answer to that seemed pretty clear and straightforward to me:
“No.”
A look of shock with a tint of confusion followed up with a glimmer of hurt feelings. The Producer almost lost it laughing. He always found my straight rational approach to relationships highly amusing.
That guy and I went out a few more times, but he kept trying to relationship me, so that was pretty much the end of it. Remarkably resilient ego, though, that one. He never held the above scenario against me. He just acted like it had never happened.
That is just one example of many similar situations. All of them amuse the hell out of me amused me at the time and still do even though I now know I was mean. Ha, I could go on and on with these stories. I know that sounds pretty harsh, and it really probably was, but I had a rule of honesty and rationality, and felt that that meant these guys couldn’t get mad at me for doing exactly what I had said I would.
Ultimately, though, MacGyver ruined my game. He never fell into the trap of not believing I would do something I said I would or of not taking me at my word. And for some reason, I didn’t want to do mean things to him, and I didn’t want to think of me as a person who would. At one point, I did anyway and pulled one very mean tactic on him (to find out my heartless move, see the paragraph labeled A Year In Limbo in Our Story). But in the end he won. I finally recognized that maybe being a b*&^% wasn't quite as much fun as I thought it was, at least not if I wanted to keep MacGyver around, and I really, really did. I let him relationship me. And have been quite happy ever since.
I know it's not Wednesday anymore, but lets hear those confessions anyway. What sort of cruelties did you pull in the dating world?
We've all done things we regret (or at least should regret) in the dating arena. Karen's were largely sins of omission - as in omitting acknowledgement of these boys' existances, ha. Mine,
MacGyver referred to my dating personna before I actually grew up a little and got serious with him as a sexual predator. OF COURSE NOT IN THE SAME CONTEXT AS CHILD PREDATORS. Ew, gross, wrong. But I may have, in fact, been a little bit predatory - but that was only if someone was stupid enough to class themselves as prey!
I never went out hunting for idiot guys to be mean to. I told them. I warned them. In some cases, I even had my friends warn them. I did not want to be anyone's girlfriend. I was not a nice girl. I would carry on a relationship with you without any concern at all for your feelings. Because I warned you ahead of time. But did they ever listen? Of course not. I seemed so innocent. I could never hurt them. Or they were going to "rescue" me. Gag me is more like it, ugh!
Now, I could delve into the possible reasons from my past that I so
Apparently, I'm supposed to give specific examples. Hmmmm . . . There are oh so many to choose from. My best friend from undergrad, the Producer's absolute favorite is this guy I had been dating for a couple weeks, to whom I had made the status of our relationship PERFECTLY CLEAR. We are not serious. We will never be a "real" couple. If you try to "relationship" me, I will come down on you with all due cruelty. We will just go out, have fun, no emotional attatchment, it will be laid back and fun. Did he listen? OF COURSE NOT!
One day, The Producer and I are sitting in our favorite Anthropology class, and this guy walks up to me. Shocked the heck out of me. In the couple weeks we had been dating, I never noticed he was in this class! Probably because The Producer and I sat off in our own corner and actually discussed class topics as opposed to the bubbly sorority crap that always seemed to be going on around us in that class. Seriously, if you don't want to take a challenging class, DON'T SIGN UP FOR ONE.
So, anyway, this guy walked up to us. We had a little strained small talk (strained because in the back of my mind I was already annoyed with guy talking to me like he was my “boyfriend” or something, introducing himself to The Producer- who, by the way knew exactly who he was- and so on). And then, he asks (quite presumptuously, if I do say so myself), “Don’t you think we should sit together?” (implying that either The Producer or I should move). Well, considering the circumstances, the answer to that seemed pretty clear and straightforward to me:
“No.”
A look of shock with a tint of confusion followed up with a glimmer of hurt feelings. The Producer almost lost it laughing. He always found my straight rational approach to relationships highly amusing.
That guy and I went out a few more times, but he kept trying to relationship me, so that was pretty much the end of it. Remarkably resilient ego, though, that one. He never held the above scenario against me. He just acted like it had never happened.
That is just one example of many similar situations. All of them amuse the hell out of me amused me at the time and still do even though I now know I was mean. Ha, I could go on and on with these stories. I know that sounds pretty harsh, and it really probably was, but I had a rule of honesty and rationality, and felt that that meant these guys couldn’t get mad at me for doing exactly what I had said I would.
Ultimately, though, MacGyver ruined my game. He never fell into the trap of not believing I would do something I said I would or of not taking me at my word. And for some reason, I didn’t want to do mean things to him, and I didn’t want to think of me as a person who would. At one point, I did anyway and pulled one very mean tactic on him (to find out my heartless move, see the paragraph labeled A Year In Limbo in Our Story). But in the end he won. I finally recognized that maybe being a b*&^% wasn't quite as much fun as I thought it was, at least not if I wanted to keep MacGyver around, and I really, really did. I let him relationship me. And have been quite happy ever since.
I know it's not Wednesday anymore, but lets hear those confessions anyway. What sort of cruelties did you pull in the dating world?
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