windchymes -> RE: SURPRISE !!!!! (11/18/2005 5:27:35 AM)
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My ex-husband was cheap and hated buying other people gifts. (Of course, he was very generous with his own gifts to himself, but that's another story). So many times, he'd remember my birthday at the last minute, stop at the drug store on the way home and grab a bottle of perfume off the clearance shelf.....or buy some wilted flowers from a roadside stand. Never jewelry, decent flowers, lingerie. or something I'd hinted at wanting....and as soon as he'd hand it to me, he'd defensively say, "Now, it's supposed to be the thought that counts!" My reply to that, after several years, was that there is supposed to actually BE some thought involved before you can fall back on that excuse. Sort of along this line, we have to be careful how we define the term "Unconditional Love". I think it was originally meant to mean loving someone in spite of rough times, an illness, a momentary lapse in common sense when they're truly contrite, a loss of job/money, or even doing some bad as a reaction to another bad event going on in their life, etc. I don't think it was meant to mean sticking around while someone hurts you with their own selfishness, sneaks around behind your back, is dishonest with bad intent, is just plain nasty.....it doesn't mean be a doormat and take abuse or neglect, and put up with ANYTHING. Unconditional love in the right context is a beautiful thing, but it shouldn't be used as a reason or excuse for staying in a relationship. I suspect that his submale ad was only the tip of a bigger iceberg. You only found this one ad. What else had he been doing or could he potentially do online or even in real life that would hurt you like this did? I think you did the right thing. chymes
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