Comments on: Not the Velveteen Rabbit http://www.sliloh.com/blog/musings/not-the-velveteen-rabbit/ “Know how sublime a thing it is to suffer and be strong.” ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Thu, 10 Nov 2011 04:38:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: sliloh http://www.sliloh.com/blog/musings/not-the-velveteen-rabbit/comment-page-1/#comment-5729 sliloh Tue, 27 Oct 2009 18:50:49 +0000 http://www.sliloh.com/blog/?p=1875#comment-5729 Yeah, never thought I should have to do background checks on someone I’ve known so long. Oh well, no fool like an old fool :p Yeah, never thought I should have to do background checks on someone I’ve known so long. Oh well, no fool like an old fool :p

]]> By: Barb Hartsook http://www.sliloh.com/blog/musings/not-the-velveteen-rabbit/comment-page-1/#comment-4565 Barb Hartsook Mon, 26 Oct 2009 20:47:51 +0000 http://www.sliloh.com/blog/?p=1875#comment-4565 Hi Anita. I have a distant relative who fits this mold -- charmer above all charmers, but who will gladly lift you of your money. Legally or illegally. You offer a hundred he'll wipe out your account. Always with the poor-me-I'm-so-mistreated-yet-look-how-wonderful-I-am stories. He has taken a few trusting women to the cleaners. I'm so glad he lives across the country! You don't deserve that -- no one does. Doesn't mean there's anything wrong with you... you learned. Next time get references! :) Heidi makes a good point. Hi Anita. I have a distant relative who fits this mold — charmer above all charmers, but who will gladly lift you of your money. Legally or illegally. You offer a hundred he’ll wipe out your account. Always with the poor-me-I’m-so-mistreated-yet-look-how-wonderful-I-am stories. He has taken a few trusting women to the cleaners. I’m so glad he lives across the country! You don’t deserve that — no one does.

Doesn’t mean there’s anything wrong with you… you learned. Next time get references! :)

Heidi makes a good point.

]]> By: sliloh http://www.sliloh.com/blog/musings/not-the-velveteen-rabbit/comment-page-1/#comment-5728 sliloh Wed, 21 Oct 2009 15:49:51 +0000 http://www.sliloh.com/blog/?p=1875#comment-5728 True enough Heidi. I’m missing what I thought was real and not the reality. I think you may be right. I know plenty of artists who do the same. True enough Heidi. I’m missing what I thought was real and not the reality.

I think you may be right. I know plenty of artists who do the same.

]]> By: Heidi http://www.sliloh.com/blog/musings/not-the-velveteen-rabbit/comment-page-1/#comment-4522 Heidi Wed, 21 Oct 2009 01:46:48 +0000 http://www.sliloh.com/blog/?p=1875#comment-4522 Hey there, One real, honest person like you is worth a thousand fake charmers. It's good that you got out before you ended up in a serious relationship with a drunken narcissist. I sometimes wonder if withdrawing and isolating are part of the artist personality package. There are SO many of us who do it. -Heidi (butterfly_fish) Hey there,

One real, honest person like you is worth a thousand fake charmers. It’s good that you got out before you ended up in a serious relationship with a drunken narcissist.

I sometimes wonder if withdrawing and isolating are part of the artist personality package. There are SO many of us who do it.

-Heidi (butterfly_fish)

]]> By: sliloh http://www.sliloh.com/blog/musings/not-the-velveteen-rabbit/comment-page-1/#comment-5727 sliloh Wed, 21 Oct 2009 00:48:34 +0000 http://www.sliloh.com/blog/?p=1875#comment-5727 Hi Adele ;) Yeah, I thought I’d finally broke my habit of picking bad boys. He was a different sort of bad boy I guess. I’ve not had a good year, still losing weight but not feeling as horrible as I was early in the year. They never did figure out anything and now I’m to the point I have to be done messing with doctors for about a year so I can get out of debt from all their bloody tests! lol I followed your conversations in class but didn’t pipe up. Sometimes this being withdrawn thing becomes way too much of a habit. Anita Hi Adele ;)

Yeah, I thought I’d finally broke my habit of picking bad boys. He was a different sort of bad boy I guess.

I’ve not had a good year, still losing weight but not feeling as horrible as I was early in the year. They never did figure out anything and now I’m to the point I have to be done messing with doctors for about a year so I can get out of debt from all their bloody tests! lol

I followed your conversations in class but didn’t pipe up. Sometimes this being withdrawn thing becomes way too much of a habit.

Anita

]]> By: Adele Aldridge http://www.sliloh.com/blog/musings/not-the-velveteen-rabbit/comment-page-1/#comment-4519 Adele Aldridge Tue, 20 Oct 2009 20:21:47 +0000 http://www.sliloh.com/blog/?p=1875#comment-4519 Hey Anita, Where/how have you been? I have missed you. As always you post such gutsy messages. All I can say is this guy sure must be able to "talk." And be convincing and verbally entertaining. It reminds of a situation from years ago. Someone had given my name to this guy to contact me. I forget why. Must have been a good reason. He called. We talked for several hours on the phone - fabulous talk. Laughing a lot. So much to discuss. Things in common. So I let him come over to meet in person. It was a disaster. We couldn't stand each other in person. Isn't that weird? But then I know people I like a lot and talk to in person and on the phone but they are incapable of writing a letter or an email - like they are retarded. People! XO, Adele Hey Anita,

Where/how have you been? I have missed you.

As always you post such gutsy messages. All I can say is this guy sure must be able to “talk.” And be convincing and verbally entertaining. It reminds of a situation from years ago. Someone had given my name to this guy to contact me. I forget why. Must have been a good reason. He called. We talked for several hours on the phone – fabulous talk. Laughing a lot. So much to discuss. Things in common. So I let him come over to meet in person. It was a disaster. We couldn’t stand each other in person. Isn’t that weird?

But then I know people I like a lot and talk to in person and on the phone but they are incapable of writing a letter or an email – like they are retarded.

People!

XO,
Adele

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