How have your past girlfriend/boyfriend relationships been?

Well what would be the point of a short-term relationship other than "for teh lolz"? At least there's much more of a companionship element in a long-term relationship, because a true friend/lover will not abandon you unless you deserve to be abandoned or he/she is dying.

Emotional and physical affection and companionship don't need to last forever to be helpful, meaningful, and fufilling.

How does one deal with trust and worrying?

a) Say my girlfriend has done something stupid that hurt me pretty bad, and I ended up finding out myself rather than by her telling me. She apologizes profusely for it, is honestly sorry, and realizes what she did and how it's messed up the relationship. I know she won't do it again, and I know for a fact that she does truly care about only me and has no feelings for anybody else, but the fact is that it still hurts and I just don't know how to get over it - I can't she how she even did it in the first place (I think this is partially due to the fact that I've never done anything along those lines - never really even considered it - and so the idea of it is just completely strange and unnatural).

All you can really do is wait it out. Since she's sorry, won't do it again, didn't mean to, and you're obviously not broken up with her, so... that's about it. Give yourself some time.

b) As for worrying, is there anyway to stop worrying so much when she goes out with friends or things like that? I honestly don't know if it's just me caring for her that much (I honestly feel that I'm in love or close to it with her, though I haven't said it yet and don't plan to until I'm sure) or if I'm just paranoid - most likely a bit of both. I don't know her friends personally, but I do know that some of them are people that I honestly don't like her hanging out with.

Blah.

Everyone worries about those they care about, and it's perfectly okay to do so as long as you don't act irrationally on them. Are you worried because you don't trust she'll be safe or because of something else? Ways to deal with it differ based on this.
 
Kegals saved my last relationship for about a month before we realized that no matter how long the sex lasted we still hated eachother. On the bright side, I've come out of it a better man. Learn from this.
 
I actually met my wife in high school, when I was 14 and she was 17. She was an exchange student from France and didn't speak a lick of English. Somehow, with the language barrier, we grew really close. We understood each other when we'd look up videos online of bands we liked and pointed at them. We watched movies, English ones had French subtitles and she'd put hers with English subtitles so we could both enjoy them.

We'd actually talk to each other as if we could understand the other. I remember sitting there and ranting to her about something, and even though she had no idea what I was saying, and she looked totally intune with me and like she understood exactly what I was talking about (now I know she just liked the sound of my voice which I find cute). She did it too, and I loved hearing her speak in French because her voice was so smooth.

I liked her from the very start but still with the language barrier I didn't know if she liked me as just a friend or more. So, I went to a website that had an English to French dictionary and started making flash cards to help her learn. By this point, a few months, she had picked up some words but still not enough to actively engage in conversations.

One night we were watching a movie and she kissed me! I was so excited and elated and didn't even care that we couldn't have a real conversation yet. And the rest, as they say, is history. ;)

We've been together for a little over six years and got married in 2008, and I love her to pieces and couldn't even imagine not being with her. We compliment each other really well and have so much trust in the other. We even have the same circle of friends now since mine and hers have integrated over the years. Granted I wouldn't hang out with the ones she's closed too if she's not there, but still it's nice. I'm very proud to say my best friend is my lover and I wouldn't want it any other way.

This is so cute. =) I'm so happy for you. It's amazing how you both could just 'click,' despite the language issue. Stuff like that is just so awesome.


On another note, Valentine's Day is fast approaching. For those who are in a relationship (or even those who aren't), what are you planning to do?
 
I've got nothing planned for Valentine's Day, since I don't have a girl to chase.

A friend of mine wants to introduce me to a friend of hers at a BBQ or something, so if that goes well, maybe I'll make plans.

EDIT: @Alaeri, that's one of the best romantic tales I've ever heard.
 
Since you didn't say, what do you plan on doing?

I'm not sure what I plan on doing... My guy says he has some stuff planned already, so... Idk. I'm still thinking about what to do for him. I know I want to make him a blanket at least, but I'm not sure. You guys have any sweet advice?

I've got nothing planned for Valentine's Day, since I don't have a girl to chase.

A friend of mine wants to introduce me to a friend of hers at a BBQ or something, so if that goes well, maybe I'll make plans.

I'd say at least meet her (you never know what could happen), but maybe not for the first time on Valentine's Day. Kinda seems like it would be an awkward day to meet.
 
Alaeri aaaaa turn you life into the cutest romance movie ever.

Valentine's day is stupid, there shouldn't be a "holiday" to express your ultimate love for someone, you should be doing that every day as it is. My first Valentine's Day date ever, (daniel three years ago) and I walked through a post-harvest corn field, and found a dead raccoon hanging out of a tree by its head in a hole. It was awesome, and we took pictures.
 
I don't have any plans either, since I also do not have a girl to do anything with. I've never really celebrated it since grade school, since my ex's dad died on Valentine's Day when she was little, so it wasn't exactly a joyous occasion for her...

EDIT:
@Alaeri: D'awww, that's so cute. You sure you didn't pull that out of a romance novel? :P
 
I don't have any plans either, since I also do not have a girl to do anything with. I've never really celebrated it since grade school, since my ex's dad died on Valentine's Day when she was little, so it wasn't exactly a joyous occasion for her...

Hey- we never did hear back about the girl you were sending the letter to... any news?

Uhm, this will be my first celebrated valentine's day. Broke up with one guy on Feb 13, and broke up with another last year on Feb 15. (He was away for Valentine's Day anyway, so it wasn't really celebrated. Plus, I'd already been ready to end it.)
 
Hey- we never did hear back about the girl you were sending the letter to... any news?

I decided not to send it after all. So many people seemed to be against it (even the ones who initially suggested it...) and after that initial night of upset I didn't feel nearly as bad. We also have been talking through texting mainly now instead of IM, and I really don't want to ask her out through text, that seems like it'd be an incredibly stupid thing to do.

Besides, like you said, until she gets another boyfriend or says no, there'll always be other chances. I don't know when those chances will come, but I seem to be pretty good at waiting...
 
Wait, you're a girl too? And here I was all happy thinking I'd found another guy who was younger than his woman (although for me it's mostly due to the fact that I started school at a younger age than most people and thus have grown up always hanging out with older people).

Oh well, it's still an amazingly cute story. I'm sure everyone's glad you posted it and helped brighten the mood up a bit in here. :)

Yeah, that's another reason I decided to hold off on the letter, eventually even IM. I just wish I had a way of making it sooner rather than later, but I just visited her and I feel like it would be greedy to ask to visit her again so soon, especially since classes just started again for her.
 
I'd say at least meet her (you never know what could happen), but maybe not for the first time on Valentine's Day. Kinda seems like it would be an awkward day to meet.

Oh, The BBQ won't be on valentines day. I'm definitely going to that if I can. I meant if things go spectacularly there, I might arrange a followup on or around (probably the latter). At this rate, though, the BBQ might not even be until after st val's.

@magic: don't feel guilty about asking if she can come up fora weekend or something; just be prepared for the possibility she can't. Also, do not make the mistake of leaving it too long and having her find someone else. Any medium of asking us better than not asking at all.
 
Past realtionships? Terrible, stupid, and not important in the least bit, same goes for my girlfriend. But now we're great and happy
 
Wait, you're a girl too? And here I was all happy thinking I'd found another guy who was younger than his woman (although for me it's mostly due to the fact that I started school at a younger age than most people and thus have grown up always hanging out with older people).
For the record, my gf is about five months older than me and it's kinda cool/strange. Like I really don't mind at all, but it's fun to joke around about it and call her a cougar and stuff.

Anyways, she has some huge amazing vday things planned for the entire day that she's told all my friends but me (and apparently all of them can't believe how romantic and cool she is after she tells them lol). The next few weeks are gonna be awesome - Sadie's is next Saturday (we're gonna youtube jerkin vidoes so we can rock the floor haha) and then Valentine's Day is the week after that...and then the day after vday we have school off so I might sneak her in the house for a night of cuddling and relaxing. Super psyched!
 
For the record, my gf is about five months older than me and it's kinda cool/strange. Like I really don't mind at all, but it's fun to joke around about it and call her a cougar and stuff.

Anyways, she has some huge amazing vday things planned for the entire day that she's told all my friends but me (and apparently all of them can't believe how romantic and cool she is after she tells them lol). The next few weeks are gonna be awesome - Sadie's is next Saturday (we're gonna youtube jerkin vidoes so we can rock the floor haha) and then Valentine's Day is the week after that...and then the day after vday we have school off so I might sneak her in the house for a night of cuddling and relaxing. Super psyched!

Aw... =) That's so cute. Five months isn't all that bad. My bf is 3 years older. But, like, age isn't as much of a difference in college and such as it is in high school, right?

What do you have planned to do for her? (Cutesy stuff like this always makes me smile.)
 
The age gap is generally less relevant as you get older (everyone uses this rule of thumb of X*0.5 + 7; where did that come from first?), and it's also less relevant if the guy is older than the girl.

5 months is nothing, I was 14 months younger than my ex (although for various reasons, 2 years ahead in school).
 
Age is fairly irrelevant. It's used as a general measure for maturity, but 5 months isn't a big enough gap to have statistically significant maturity level changes.
 
I didn't mean to imply that age mattered, I was just commenting because from what I've seen the guy tends to be older than the woman (whether that's statistically true, I don't know, that's just my personal observation), but I'm almost always chasing women that are older than me due to the fact I've grown up always being the youngest of my peers. I dunno, I just like it when I find another guy with an older woman.
 
Aw... =) That's so cute. Five months isn't all that bad. My bf is 3 years older. But, like, age isn't as much of a difference in college and such as it is in high school, right?

What do you have planned to do for her? (Cutesy stuff like this always makes me smile.)
I don't really have anything myself planned for vday - her plans take up pretty much the entire day until I drop her off at a friends to help another friend to get ready for some other dance, and then then will pick her up after that to hang out till whenever we sleep.

Now that I think of it, we don't have a dinner planned or anything. Perhaps I'll take her out to eat, maybe Olive Garden or something else nice but cheap!!

I am also taking her out for a picnic tomorrow - we're both ditching school haha.

edit: first monthiversary tomorrow
 
I didn't mean to imply that age mattered, I was just commenting because from what I've seen the guy tends to be older than the woman (whether that's statistically true, I don't know, that's just my personal observation), but I'm almost always chasing women that are older than me due to the fact I've grown up always being the youngest of my peers. I dunno, I just like it when I find another guy with an older woman.
Probably because historically this has been the case.
Due to shorter lifespans, older men would marry younger women to increase the range of time in which they could produce children.
After all, a man can keep jizzing for a while longer than the point where a woman hits menopause and stops being able to have children.
The mentality was also "the younger the better" to live longer and produce more children.
Most males had to go fight in a war first or at least begin earning their keep before marrying, hence why they were older. And what would now be their gradematers had already married off to the previous/older generation of men.

Also I am spending V-Day at my church's winter camp. A superior use of useless piece of rubbish day.

I am single and don't want your internet love >8\
 
Thread necro!

Any news for anybody?

I've met a couple of nice girls since uni started back up, but don't really know any of them well enough to say whether I want to give chase. The one I've enjoyed the company of most so far is a girl called Tiny who comes to our Beer and Cards events. First week I taught her and some other people how to play Munchkin, then second week she brought the Sydney Morning Herald crossword, and I started helping her out with it (read: interfering) and she was really excited because apparently only two or three of her friends like crosswords.

There are a couple of other girls that some friends of mine want to introduce me to, though, so we'll see what happens. Watch this space!
 
Well Mr. Indigo bumped this thread so I might as well share a story to keep it going.

This was about 9th grade. I had developed this really good friendship with this girl in my class named Madison (not her real name). I think she started developing feelings for me, and I wasn't really sure what I felt. Mid-year we went on a class trip. A couple of other people in the class started asking Madison and me if we were going out. A few of my other friends said that we would make a really good couple.

We decided to just listen and go out. Well, I was the one that asked after thinking it over. It turns out that it was a mistake. The truth was that I wasn't love her. I was very close friends with her, but I wasn't in love with her. That night she tried to kiss me and I instinctively backed away without even realizing it. We just stared at each other awkwardly for a few seconds, and then we kind of just went back to our rooms. It hurt our friendship a bit. She realized that I had only asked her out because of what our classmates had said, rather than because of what I felt for her. She still had feelings for me (I'm pretty sure of that), but she knew I had no romantic feelings for her.

Looking back I realize that it was for the best. The whole event caused me to question my sexuality, and eventually led me to the (correct) conclusion that I was actually into men.

I wish I could share another story, but I've never had another girlfriend (obviously), and I go to a small school so there aren't any other gay men (oh how I wish some of them were... it sucks knowing that there is a 0% chance of your feelings being reciprocated).
 
I wish I could share another story, but I've never had another girlfriend (obviously), and I go to a small school so there aren't any other gay men (oh how I wish some of them were... it sucks knowing that there is a 0% chance of your feelings being reciprocated).

My school was quite small too (about 160 students in 12th grade), and there was one openly gay guy. 5 years after graduation, it turns out that more like 6 of them were gay.

High school being the difficult period that it is regardless of sexual preference, the additional complications of being different in that regard can often lead to many people keeping their sexuality quiet so that they don't have to deal with the awkwardness/pressure with parents/teachers/school friends.

I think most people come out in college-age, when they (and their peers) have more freedom, independence, and maturity/open-mindedness. Several of my gay friends, including one who came out earlier this year, have told me it felt really bizarre how little anyone cared when they came out in college. They'd built it up so much in their head throughout high school it seemed like a really big thing to them, and it was only after they came out they realised that most people don't actually care.
 
I'm a 5th year, 21-year-old university student with an Honours degree in Physics and approaching one in Law, each from the best respective schools in the country.

I'm also substantially in debt so I could attend university, but the payments on my student loans are deferred to tax under the scheme we have here.

Even if I had a girlfriend at the moment, and had the available funds, I'd much sooner choose to be able to pay off those debts, or provide a house and food and security for my future family than buy a gold ring for her to wear. And most students would be in the same position. The inability to afford a ring does not necessary imply that their love is any worse, or so I would have thought.

EDIT: And what good fight am I fighting? I don't know to what that refers.
 
I'm still a virgin and intend to keep my virginity until I meet a man who will marry me.

They want to use me so I let them think they're going to use me but I instead use them. The actions are as selfish as one another. I believe that I'm doing something beneficial because I'm teaching them to not just think with their dick. If they want to smooch me, play with me and suck on me I might as well sit back and enjoy it while receiving free things.

Hate to break it to you, honey, but oral sex IS sex.

You're acting just like these guys you are dating... You can't accuse them of being wrong since you're doing it yourself. Two wrongs don't make a right. You seem just as selfish as the boys who want to 'take advantage of you.'

I'm saving my virginity for marriage because I only want to have my husband and jesus inside me. God says in the bible that sex before marriage is a sin so I don't participate in it. I also don't want to look my child in the eye and have him know that I had sex with many different men. How could they respect their mother?
The Bible emphasizes purity. It does not encourage walking as close as you can to the line and claiming that you never crossed it. If you were truly serious, you would realize the purpose of the seventh commandment. It's protection against getting hurt, keeping yourself pure til marriage. Taking advantage of every guy's hormones does not go well with God's instructions. What about lies? Those are against God's established law, yet you still seem to find that apporpriate to 'teach these boys a lesson.'

Would you like to look your child in the eye and tell them that you've enjoyed the affections of other men? I sure wouldn't. It's just as bad.

If I can resist my urges to have sex then they should too. It's obvious that most of the men want sex, even the ones who claim to be christian. A real man would be prepared to show his love with his savings account by spending his money on a ring. If someone claims to love you then money is of little importance.

I think the current internet generation has placed such little value on marriage and true love that they expect that everyone will be as depraved as they are. Don't you think it's sad that casual fucking without intimate feelings and even plans for a future takes place?

So, you seem to be implying that if these guys bought you a ring, you would be happy with them. As long as they spend a fortune on you, you will be satisfied. Yet you don't seem to care very much about their feelings or hormonal tendencies.

Don't make assumptions about the current internet generation. You're sticking us all into one group and looking down on us. Yet, you seem to be on the internet as well. You can group yourself in with all of us who are "love-deprived" on the internet. ^_^

I personally think that it's a lot more sad to see someone like you be confused about the specifications of the Christian faith. You claim that you're living correctly and that we should all follow your tactics. You emphasize your good deeds and moral standards and character and then imply that we're all completely nuts because we don't take advantage of our partners.

The richer someone is usually indicates how much effort they're willing to put into their life. If they're willing to be dedicated to a job they're much more likely to be dedicated to a relationship and provide.

It's the same reasoning for not dating someone who is overweight; they're much more likely to be lazy and put far less effort into their work life and consequently put far less effort into their love life.

If you're too lazy to go out and buy these wonderful gifts for yourself instead of simply accepting them from guys you don't care about, that says a lot about your character.

@MrIndigo- very well said. It's been awhile since we've talked in here.

EDIT: It seems our troll left. Too bad. I was enjoying the logic. At least I got most of it quoted beforehand. ^_^
 
Lol, sounds like I missed some really great arguing!

As moronic and heartless as that person was, though, I have found a valid point in what they were saying.
If I can resist my urges to have sex then they should too.
In theory, when you have sexual intercourse, there's supposed to be an emotional aspect to it. The problem is, it has become perfectly acceptable to have sex with someone whom you do not love, which basically takes the emotional aspect out of the picture (seriously, what other emotions are relevant to sex?). In fact, it has become completely impossible to logically deduce whether someone loves you or not, partly because of this and partly because people can lie and partly because people can be really evil motherfuckers even if they seem nice at first. Yes, the latter two have always been around, but if the original theory were true, then sex would be your proof.
 
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