You Don't Like Me? But You Must Like Me! I Will Make You Like Me & Prove You Wrong!
There's this thing that some guys do. I say "guys" because I'm straight and I exclusively date guys, so I have no idea if any other genders do it, but I do know that some guys do it. There's this thing where I'll tell a guy that I don't think we're romantically or sexually compatible because I have certain values that I don't think match his, but those things might not interfere with a possible friendship and he's otherwise cool, so let's be friends. Then the guy proceeds to temporarily turn himself into whatever it is that I think he isn't in order to gain my attraction.
Except, no, I didn't. You weren't that person so I didn't like you. And by pulling the Disappearing Act (because it's almost always the Disappearing Act, where the last indication is that things are going great and they just suddenly disappear, unfriend you, block your calls, etc. with no explanation, unless you manage to track them down like a stereotypical psycho ex-gf with a vengeance - and trust me, that never ends well), you actually proved me right because you did not, in fact, have the values that I said would be necessary for a successful relationship with me.
The values I require in an intimate partner are: honesty, transparency, respect for agency, integrity, shared worldviews on religious and social justice topics, a handful of common interests, a personal commitment to polyamory whether they get to date me or not, a similar style of polyamory to the one I do, and likes me for who I am as a person, flaws and all. The values I require in a casual fuckbuddy are: I'm sexually attracted to you and you avoid talking to me about topics that will force me to face the fact that we don't have any of the other values in common. Even with one criteria, you'd be surprised how many people can't meet this one.
The act of not being that person means that I was right about them. The act of trying to have a sexual relationship with me under false pretenses means, by definition, that I was right about them. The act of leaving without the dignity of a considerate breakup means that I was right about them.
They did not successfully "fool" me into having the kind of relationship that I said was unlikely because the relationship ended (usually abruptly and soon after it started) and because it was a farce, which means that we did not, in fact, have the kind of relationship that I said was unlikely. They did not successfully prove me wrong because their attempt to "prove me wrong" is, itself, the proof that I was right.
BTW, this is a huge dick move full of entitlement, and I will find a way to work it into my Breaking Up lesson, one way or another - either in the workshop or in the book or somehow. I've never shied away from outing assholes before, and now I even have a platform specifically for using assholes as illustrations of What Not To Do. This is the very essence of entitlement. These guys can't even have a girl *they don't even like* not want them, so they *make* her want them against her consent (because if she knew the truth, she wouldn't like them) just because they don't want her to dislike them. And, as I have learned from those that I did what I say not to do in my Breaking Up workshop when I tracked them down to get "closure", they think of themselves as Nice Guys, who are "misunderstood" and girls only like jerks anyway.
Fuck you.
- "No I'm totally all about polyamory!"
- "No, really, I've matured since the last time I flaked out on you."
- "I know it SAID 'libertarian' on my profile, but it's really little-l libertarian and, honestly, I have more socialist leanings than anything else, I just haven't updated the profile to reflect that."
- "I'm sorry, I've gotten over my whole blaming all women for my failings thing. I completely realize that I was wrong."
Except, no, I didn't. You weren't that person so I didn't like you. And by pulling the Disappearing Act (because it's almost always the Disappearing Act, where the last indication is that things are going great and they just suddenly disappear, unfriend you, block your calls, etc. with no explanation, unless you manage to track them down like a stereotypical psycho ex-gf with a vengeance - and trust me, that never ends well), you actually proved me right because you did not, in fact, have the values that I said would be necessary for a successful relationship with me.
The values I require in an intimate partner are: honesty, transparency, respect for agency, integrity, shared worldviews on religious and social justice topics, a handful of common interests, a personal commitment to polyamory whether they get to date me or not, a similar style of polyamory to the one I do, and likes me for who I am as a person, flaws and all. The values I require in a casual fuckbuddy are: I'm sexually attracted to you and you avoid talking to me about topics that will force me to face the fact that we don't have any of the other values in common. Even with one criteria, you'd be surprised how many people can't meet this one.
The act of not being that person means that I was right about them. The act of trying to have a sexual relationship with me under false pretenses means, by definition, that I was right about them. The act of leaving without the dignity of a considerate breakup means that I was right about them.
They did not successfully "fool" me into having the kind of relationship that I said was unlikely because the relationship ended (usually abruptly and soon after it started) and because it was a farce, which means that we did not, in fact, have the kind of relationship that I said was unlikely. They did not successfully prove me wrong because their attempt to "prove me wrong" is, itself, the proof that I was right.
BTW, this is a huge dick move full of entitlement, and I will find a way to work it into my Breaking Up lesson, one way or another - either in the workshop or in the book or somehow. I've never shied away from outing assholes before, and now I even have a platform specifically for using assholes as illustrations of What Not To Do. This is the very essence of entitlement. These guys can't even have a girl *they don't even like* not want them, so they *make* her want them against her consent (because if she knew the truth, she wouldn't like them) just because they don't want her to dislike them. And, as I have learned from those that I did what I say not to do in my Breaking Up workshop when I tracked them down to get "closure", they think of themselves as Nice Guys, who are "misunderstood" and girls only like jerks anyway.
Fuck you.