Passive Aggressive Tendencies
As I was at the gym this morning for the fifth day in a row, I got a pleasant surprise. I was resting from a third set of incline dumbell hammer curls. A very nice looking and wellbuilt Hispanic man with a goatee (Meeeeooooooowwww) rested his hand on my shoulder and said to me "It's Friday... you can get through this." I just smiled and thanked him. While I probably looked drained from a grueling workout to this kind stranger, I had other things on my mind.
See... a person who I care deeply about really disappointed me last night. We had plans tonight, but he apparently forgot and made plans with other people. I was not invited to attend the dinner engagement. So, now I am feeling blue. I feel like I am a second class citizen in my own friendship. What's worse... I only see this special friend on weekends. I get all my exercise, all my eating right, all my cleaning house, all my cutting grass, all my bill paying, all my going through mail, all my blogging, all my emailing, all my chatting, and all my celibacy done during the week. I do this so I can devote all of my time to this special friend. Yet, lately every weekend brings an event that I am excluded from. It takes away four hours of
I will take the handsome Hispanic man's words of encouragement under advisement. "It is Friday... you can get through this"
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posted by Brettcajun at Friday, June 09, 2006
8 Comments:
I wasn't at the gym this morning.
or just take the handsome latino man home...hehehe
You know what I am going to say.......
You too can make yourself unavailable at times, ya know. If it happens once, I could understand and deal with it, but if it happens more than once, it aint right.
Break some hearts big boy.
It makes you want to re-think the 'friendship' doesn't it?
You have to do, what you need to do! Your happiness has to come first.
Tonka
*smooches* and feel better brettman.
It seems like it always comes back to this w/'this friend'. I wonder if it's time to make a new friend?
Yeah, there comes a time when you have to do the same back to them to see if they notice. If they don't ... it may be time to move on, unfortunately.
Side note: That pic of you is great. Your extra workouts are really paying off, although you may want to reduce those man-boobs a little. :)
Try this:
"Gee, I'm sorry you forgot and went and made plans with other people after you'd already committed to plans with me. I'm sure they're going to be disappointed when you tell them that you had a previous engagement, but surely they understand that it's first come, first served. Maybe I should get you a pocket calendar so you don't make this mistake again?"
If he doesn't pick up on the underlying message, it's time for a new friend.
Of course, if we're talking who I think we are, it won't matter, because he won't care and you won't do anything about it, but that's another issue.
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