Well, in all fairness, both women and men can be snakes. But, I can understand your Belgian friend's sentiments.cyprushil wrote:
"Women, Snakes with tits the lot of them"
Weird ... but, after I'd been divorced for a year, I started a relationship with a woman in another city. We'd known of each other for years and had seen each other platonically ... but found we had a lot in common. And, we each visited each other as often as possible. Two Thanksgivings ago, she called up to tell me she was flying out to celebrate Thanksgiving with me. I was hoping she would. While I'd met her adult kids and she'd met my kid, they'd never met each other. And, since one of her kids worked in my city, I suggested I'd take everyone out for a big dinner at a local restaurant. Click.
At first, I didn't think much of her hanging up on me. She has fibromyalgia ... and when she has one of her "episodes," she has to get quickly to a quiet/dark room to chill out. Imagine having a migraine headache over your entire body. Anyhoo, I sent her email to ask how she was doing. She replied like gangbusters with both shotgun barrels blazing, calling me "insensitive." I asked what I'd done and she said, "You should have known I wanted this trip for us alone."
Well, when a woman drops the "You should have known..." guilt trip on a guy, red flags should go up immediately (as they did in my case). Anytime they connect "sensitivity" with "clairvoyance," you can bet you're in for a lifetime of guilt trips if you marry such a woman. And, since mind-reading was never one of my strong suits, I ended the relationship with my reply to her -- "Children pout, adults communicate."
In any case, over the last two years, I've actually come to "like" the single lifestyle. Not that I'm hanging out in bars (I don't drink) or living a playboy's lifestyle (which was never my lifestyle). But, it's nice to plan things independently -- without feeling the need to put them to a vote or run them past a committee. And, I'm not so certain I'd want to give that up again. Not that I'd never get married again. But, I think the likelihood of marriage for me is of a very low order.
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