I am so tired of having repetative, multi-hour depressing conversations with people who need money, favors, support, hand-holding, etc
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"Life is like a pinball game. Every decision that you make, every breath you take is like deciding to knit instead of perl, or red instead of blue, and at the end, those are the pants that you have to wear because you lie in them."
We think he may have eaten the wrong mushrooms at the time, but the advice is still sound.
I've never tried to teach a monkey to do calculus. I don't know that it's impossible, but I'm pretty sure that I don't have the patience for it. Then again, I'm not a math professor or a monkey wrangler, so perhaps that's a bad analogy.
Dr. Phil's big characteristic is that he's a jerk, and that works in a lot of situations. It sounds an awful lot like what your bunny-headed individual wants is someone to take the responsibility for saying the things that she wants to say to her husband rather than doing it herself; whether she either doesn't have the courage to do it or doesn't have the power to affect the relationship is moot, there is a communication problem there that's not going to
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Thanks. Although I think you might need to take a couple of those "X"'s off the per hour thing :-).
It was a rant. I needed to do it. Throw off the bad stuff to make room for good. You know how it is.
I got an apology call today. that's nice. It won't get me my hour-and-a-half-that-I-should-have-spent-sleeping back, but it is nice to at least get an apology.
Apparantly, for a good deal of the conversation, the Peppermint Schnapps was talking.
You know it's bad when someone gets mouthy-drunk on Peppermint Schnapps.
It's only this hard if you keep trying to do it the wrong way.
Or if you don't try to do anything at all, except whine and moan and wallow in dysfunctionality. Then the only thing other people can do is bash you across the head with a shovel and hope that gets your attention.
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"Life is like a pinball game. Every decision that you make, every breath you take is like deciding to knit instead of perl, or red instead of blue, and at the end, those are the pants that you have to wear because you lie in them."
We think he may have eaten the wrong mushrooms at the time, but the advice is still sound.
I've never tried to teach a monkey to do calculus. I don't know that it's impossible, but I'm pretty sure that I don't have the patience for it. Then again, I'm not a math professor or a monkey wrangler, so perhaps that's a bad analogy.
Dr. Phil's big characteristic is that he's a jerk, and that works in a lot of situations. It sounds an awful lot like what your bunny-headed individual wants is someone to take the responsibility for saying the things that she wants to say to her husband rather than doing it herself; whether she either doesn't have the courage to do it or doesn't have the power to affect the relationship is moot, there is a communication problem there that's not going to ( ... )
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It was a rant. I needed to do it. Throw off the bad stuff to make room for good. You know how it is.
I got an apology call today. that's nice. It won't get me my hour-and-a-half-that-I-should-have-spent-sleeping back, but it is nice to at least get an apology.
Apparantly, for a good deal of the conversation, the Peppermint Schnapps was talking.
You know it's bad when someone gets mouthy-drunk on Peppermint Schnapps.
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Or if you don't try to do anything at all, except whine and moan and wallow in dysfunctionality. Then the only thing other people can do is bash you across the head with a shovel and hope that gets your attention.
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