Treasure3 -> RE: Please, tell me I'm not crazy for not believing her. (6/24/2008 7:56:19 AM)
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ORIGINAL: Silkendream Okay, first of all, two points about the 'white knight/dom thingy' : 1) helping a woman can make a man feel very powerful and satisfy a deep craving to be able to put things right and 2) if she's gone, will he move on to 'helping' someone else? It depends how much you care for your Dom, but if you do love him and want to help him, it might be a nice idea to help him work out exactly why he was such an easy mark – asking leading questions, not in an angry way, but non-judgementally, just because you're interested and concerned about him, such as 'why did you support her?' (actually, i'd love to know the answer to that one myself!) and listen to him talking about her and his feelings around the whole situation. This is a real achilles heel for him, and has impacted on his life big time – if it was happening to a sub i would expect her dom/Master to help her through it, so why not help your dom out this way? I do agree with everything everyone else has said, except one thing – IMO, i wouldnt go near her, for fear of getting sucked into her nightmare vortex of chaos, but then thats me. I have met a few people like her, and i have found them so toxic, they tend to smear their poison on everyone they meet, wrapping their yellow waxy arms around them and dragging them down to their twilight criminal world - best to stay away altogether simply to protect yourself – cause when shes arrested – guess who shes going to blame for 'making her do it'? I'll give you a clue – not herself!! Good luck, and please let us know what happens - i'm hooked! Yes, he has said he has a tendency to rescue people, and she isn't the first or only one. Right now, he has another "friend" living in his house (male this time, thank goodness) who he is supporting because this man spends his entire SS check on booze. He claims to hate "having" to keep providing for this person, and keeps saying he is going to take the steps to legally evict him (as he's been there almost 2 years now), but it is all talk and no action. On some level, I think he needs to feel needed this way, but I can't for the life of me understand why. White knight syndrome only goes so far, doesn't it? This seems to be something more. It is really frustrating for me to continue to watch this, and I have pulled away a lot in the last few months because of it. Helping people is an admirable trait, but only when they really need it, not when they are continually using and manipulating you... at least in my opinion. Besides, I get tired of hearing him complain over and over about how much these two people cost him. On one level, I think I get the raw end of the deal as he often feels the need to watch his "budget" when I visit because he has just spent so much on one of them. We don't go and do as many things as we did before he took on this second "project" as he calls the man. I knew I was reading the situation correctly. I just had moments when I started wondering if, maybe, possibly, I was being too critical, as he is so good at believing in them. I guess I needed to talk about this, too, as it has been kind of a strain, especially lately, since I chose not to listen to this woman's stories any longer. I've been questioning the entire relationship. He has spoken often of making a life together with me and mine, and I just don't think I want this kind of thing going on in any relationship I am in. I need to feel comfortable with my man's judgement, and though I realize we can all make mistakes, it can't continue to happen over and over without affecting how I feel about the man as a whole.
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