Originally posted by Francisco d'Anconia
Alright, if you say so. It's just that the title of your thread says otherwise.
So what have you learned? What exactly did you do and to what extreme? What will you do differently next time?
It sounds as if you overreacted when she went to the club. In the past it doesn't seem as if you would have done anything or cared. There is such a thing as a "happy medium."
Next time? Not react in ways that aren't me. I'm a pretty calm and confident person and have no need to try to force someone to respect me. They either do or don't and screw em if they don't. I'm me no matter what. I mean, if the woman loves me then it's probably a foregone conclusion she respects me anyway. I'd rather give the benefit of the doubt until it's blatantly obvious.
Well sometimes she'd do or say things i thought were a little disrespectful and i'd respond a little harsher than i wanted to. I don't remember exactly what i said but last month she brought this up and i figured i was being not so bright about it so i explained why i reacted how i did. That girlfriends in my past treated me with such disrespect and this time around i wanted to cut it off before it got out of hand. She said that wasn't such a good idea because if she didn't respect me she wouldn't be with me now.. and she said not to take out past relationships on her because she's not some crap girlfriend like the others. I agree she's right and i toned down. Now she thinks she doesn't know who i really am and try as she might and as much as she cares about me she can't get the full set of feelings she had before me before she was given the brief 'dark' side of me.
It's not like i screamed and ranted at her or acted like a jealous fool or anything... was just what i thought was firm when she thought it was being mean/jerk. The largest part of the problem of the miscommunication was that it was done in txt msgs... apparently online i come off with a different personality than in person and sound really harsh. (yeah i know... later on i made the rule of no serious convos in txt msgs)
It just really sucks to lose a really good relationship over a couple things i wouldn't normally do in the first place. Hence the just be myself...