DesFIP
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Joined: 11/25/2007 From: Apple County NY Status: offline
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Our relationship is ours. We don't feel any need to define it to others, especially using terms that are guaranteed to get a bad reaction from people. We allow people to see us interact and make their own opinions. So if we're chatting with friends and he says "time to go", all I do is say "wow, didn't realize what time it is" and tell them goodbye. They don't get the opinion he's ordering me around or belittling me. I am just agreeable and happy to walk out with him, hand in hand. But deliberately worrying my elderly, ill, father by saying 'Your daughter is now my bitch". That's a definite no-no. I treat him with respect, he treats me with respect. And wanting the best for me does not include frightening an old man.
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Slave to laundry Cynical and proud of it!
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