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Blogflog - Find the Happily Ever After that Works for You

Apr 25, 2015 17:10

Link: Find the Happily Ever After that Works for You
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( Find the Happily Ever After that Works for You )

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rodentfanatic April 25 2015, 15:48:57 UTC

Yeah, I don't believe this happened, let alone multiple times. Strangers do not randomly discuss their divorce with people. I extra don't believe it because there's no way LKH goes regularly to any sort of "women's luncheon" as it would involve, natch, other women ( ... )

ext_1626743 April 25 2015, 20:02:41 UTC

They expected me to be a kind of cheerleader for them, their goals, their ambitions, and their careers.

And yeah, of course they did. That's part of what marriage is: you support each other's goals, ambitions, and careers. You don't give up your own, but you do support the other person. But LKH cannot do that. It has to be all her, all the time.

ext_1626743 April 25 2015, 20:52:27 UTC

alondra_del_sol April 26 2015, 08:03:02 UTC

I wonder what Genevieve is actually like, because LKH has such weird issues around women and other women and yet now she has a live in girlfriend. Like it seems like they do stuff together, but I don't know... I wonder what that conversational dynamic is like.

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rodentfanatic April 25 2015, 15:49:09 UTC

"I still remember one of the little girls teasing me that my mother was dead ( ... )

ext_1626743 April 25 2015, 19:52:02 UTC

Also blah blah blah I AM THE ONLY WOMAN OF MY GENERATION WHO WORKED!

What generation does she think she belongs to, anyway? Besides the facts you addressed above, about how only a certain demographic of women didn't work outside the home, by the time LKH got to working age, women of any demographic working outside the home was pretty much accepted. My mother's older than her and only didn't work for a salary when I was very young, and she worked with a lot of other women, and was married to a man who made a sturdy middle-class salary as well. LKH is just so wrong.

rodentfanatic April 26 2015, 14:08:08 UTC

Yeah, and just a few posts ago she was saying how she grew up in rural farm country; if that's true, the women in her community were sure as hell working. On a farm, you don't let an extra pair of hands go to waste.

ext_1626743 April 26 2015, 19:45:11 UTC

Traditionally, women run the farm. They get up first, they go to bed last. "A man works from sun to sun, but a woman's work is never done." That proverb is hundreds of years old and comes from a time when most people were farmers.

Lazy golddiggers, Laurell. Right.

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dagonista April 25 2015, 19:56:06 UTC

Honestly, I think LKH rehearses these "actual conversations I had with actual people, actually" in the shower, and then blogs about them. No way they happen in real life.

nightmer April 25 2015, 21:21:47 UTC

Didn't she start dating Jon like, riiiiiiight after her divorce? Now it sounds like she was happily dating away for ages before she settled down with him.

She mentioned her heart being broken a few times. I'm surprised we haven't heard more about this. There seemed to be a lot of "friends" mentioned over the years that suddenly disappeared from her life. Early poly relationship drama?

And why is there a high heel and a pumpkin? Symbolic, I guess.

apep727 April 25 2015, 21:42:38 UTC

I thinking about the time-line of her divorce/re-marriage, and concluding that she was probably dating Jon during the divorce proceedings. Which is all well and good, but I doubt she spent a great deal of time dating at that time, unless it was a lot of one-offs.

Honestly, I think LKH has problems perceiving the passage of time. It sort of comes up in her books, too - the amount of time between books, or the timeline of the series don't work.

guardians_song April 27 2015, 01:53:28 UTC

This may be unkind of me, but (based upon knowing LKH-ish people) I'd guess she's about average on perceiving time, but she never thinks to CHECK. Most people, if they're uncertain about a timeline, hedge what they're saying or go to check. LKH just proudly blurts out whatever she thinks she remembers as the gospel truth, then never, ever goes back to check.

Narcissistic ego-bloating can drastically reduce people's apparent intelligence. In someone who hypothetically got everything right the first time around (~90% gold~), it might not, but for the rest of humanity...

ravens_shadow April 26 2015, 20:31:42 UTC

I could see someone, actually, at the gym and starting up a conversation. People do that, sometimes. Not me, but people. And if a woman looked at LKH and saw what she thought was a woman who might understand, I could also see her wanting to commiserate. But instead of smiling and nodding and saying, "That sucks, I'm sorry that happened to you," LKH has to throw in how it was the complete opposite for her. Really? "Oh, you're in emotional pain. Allow me to pour some metaphorical salt into that wound and grind it in for good measure." No wonder the other woman doesn't want to continue the conversation. What are they supposed to say when LKH responds that way to a situation that's painful for them ( ... )