CaptainGeorge
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I've had the awkward pleasure of meeting a girl who manages to agree with me on many things. I say it is awkward because she quite a handful....
First she shows an interest in being my friend, with openness toward something more. We were discussing psychology, which is what I am majoring in. I explained to her my views and she says they are opinion and nothing more. Of course coming from a familiar source this catches me off guard--hitting me square in my point of view--and elicits an angry response. Although I manage to patch up the relationship, she informs me that I am now no longer on her "potential boyfriend" list.
On the one hand, I'm confounded that a person who shares so much empathy with me is daring to doubt views. I expect it from my critics, but they are unable to empathize with me anyway. I would expect those close to me to respect my views and not wave them aside as though they were nothing.
Being unable to consciously assert the state of her feelings, I become quite confused. She has become a symbol of my own inability to find a mate, a person who expresses interest in me but chooses not because of distaste but completely of her own volition to reject me. Still, I have continued to try to pursue a relationship after this blow-up. She neither pushes me forward nor back, but lets me do the pushing of my own person myself!
I feel very deeply conflicted. I've experienced this trend once before, but it was with a person who I highly disagreed with. She consumed my conscious energy quickly, but was repelled by the explosion of my unconscious energy when she had done so. With this person who I am mostly agreeing with though, it's different. My conscious energy is untouched--I am going about my activities as normal and can put her existence aside easily--but my unconscious feelings seem drained away to the point of emotional numbness.
I'm not sure what to do. Is this a relationship that is not meant to last by some measure, or...?
First she shows an interest in being my friend, with openness toward something more. We were discussing psychology, which is what I am majoring in. I explained to her my views and she says they are opinion and nothing more. Of course coming from a familiar source this catches me off guard--hitting me square in my point of view--and elicits an angry response. Although I manage to patch up the relationship, she informs me that I am now no longer on her "potential boyfriend" list.
On the one hand, I'm confounded that a person who shares so much empathy with me is daring to doubt views. I expect it from my critics, but they are unable to empathize with me anyway. I would expect those close to me to respect my views and not wave them aside as though they were nothing.
Being unable to consciously assert the state of her feelings, I become quite confused. She has become a symbol of my own inability to find a mate, a person who expresses interest in me but chooses not because of distaste but completely of her own volition to reject me. Still, I have continued to try to pursue a relationship after this blow-up. She neither pushes me forward nor back, but lets me do the pushing of my own person myself!
I feel very deeply conflicted. I've experienced this trend once before, but it was with a person who I highly disagreed with. She consumed my conscious energy quickly, but was repelled by the explosion of my unconscious energy when she had done so. With this person who I am mostly agreeing with though, it's different. My conscious energy is untouched--I am going about my activities as normal and can put her existence aside easily--but my unconscious feelings seem drained away to the point of emotional numbness.
I'm not sure what to do. Is this a relationship that is not meant to last by some measure, or...?