I hate people who require excessive stroking. No matter what you do with
these people it isn't enough. They call you up and complain and sigh and
moan about their troubles, you spend an hour building them back up, and
then at the end of the conversation when all you'd like is an
acknowledgment-- like, "it helps to talk to you," or maybe to hear them
laugh, or ANYthing to show you haven't wasted your time and energy, they
say something like, "Well, I better go, I can see the day is going to be
shit."
Or they create scenes out of a need for emotional interaction. Like kids
writing "I will always love Jimmy!" on a highway overpass. Why put
yourself and other people through grand scenes which won't mean anything
within hours or days? Why create a huge emotional upset, when all that
will be left in the end is memories of foolish behavior? Why take
transient feelings and make them some sort of monument? I *hate* that.
These people wander off, feeling better because they got to emote, they
forget all about the whole thing, and I am left with a stack of lousy
memories-- a fucking junkyard full of badly built monuments to unbridled
temper and meaningless emotion.
Then there are the MEN who ultimately end up acting like infants. Have
you ever realized that you are mothering your boyfriend? Isn't it the
pits? Have you ever had a man do something really awful-- and then, even
as he is admitting it and apologizing, noticed a sheepish smile his
face? Why? Because he gets to be a little boy again and maneuver mommy
into clasping him to her bosom. You find a "nice" man, a "sensitive"
man, a man who is soft-spoken and considerate... and then one day you
realize he is a bundle of repressed rage and frustration. And who does
he blame for his inability to assert himself? Who else? Mommy again. But
will he discuss it? No. He's too god-damned passive-aggressive. And if
they don't behave like little boys, they're covering up their cringing
fears by behaving like cold bastards.
(But I'm not bitter...)
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