Knittin' Kitten
Actually, I was in love with my first boyfriend when I was 12/13, and I still hold that to this day - it most definitely wasn't lust, he kinda pushed me into all that stuff. I maintain it's possible but yeah, a healthy sense of scepticism is always a good idea.
I know how you feel Jessica, all the way through my relationship with Tim I was told that I was too young to be in love (started going out at sixteen, broke up at eighteen,) but I did love him. I don't know, I've never believed in the concept of "the one", or a "soulmate"; I think people usually use that as an excuse, either as a reason why they don't try and make it work in a relationship or to cover up the fact that there's really nothing there. I think it's too easy to go "Oh, he wasn't the one" just because he didn't serenade you from the rooftops or whatever. It doesn't work like that. I know it sounds pessimistic, but I've always figured that the person you can be together with forever, the person you don't fight with, is the person you're comfortable with and are friends with (as well as still wanting to have sex with them after a while). That's the important thing to me - I've always loved big, dramatic relationships, but I know that I'd never enter into any kind of contract with those people, cause I'm just not comfortable with them.
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Tired and lonely and have an essay to finish =(
Sorry I wasn't having a go, I'm just quite Batman obsessed =P and really interested in Women In Refrigerators Syndrome, so have done a lot of research into Barbara Gordon.
Nah I haven't read that one! I want to read Hush next, I think. Problem is there are so many and I have no money!
I kept getting annoyed with the guy in it. SHE TOLD YOU NOT TO GET A OUIJA BOARD YOU MORON! And he obviously didn't have things under control.
I really liked it but I got the alternative ending because I downloaded it. I was scared but not too badly, just thought it was generally quite a good film.
^ Agree.
There's comfortable and there's taking for granted. And you should never be with someone you take for granted or vice versa.
When I'm in a relationship I just give the guy the option "If it's that big a problem for you, don't be with me." It's a little bit harder to explain it when it's a one-off thing though - you don't want to say beforehand but depending on the guy, it can really kill the mood if he goes to take your bra off and you stop him.
It's so annoying, isn't it? Cause ideally, that's the best part of the relationship, when you get comfortable. I don't really like the beginning, I just get so panicky and paranoid. I like it when you can settle and just be two normal people. One of my favourite things is just being with my boyfriend but not doing stuff together - like when Andy comes over and he plays XBox and I do work, or when he does work and I read. It's great because you're not trying to impress each other any more. However, sometimes it can backfire and being comfortable turns into being lazy. I don't expect a guy to try and impress me all the time, but there's stuff I think is necessary in a relationship. For me, regular sex is a big thing. I know it's shallow, but I hate when you start off a relationship having sex all the time, then after a month it just dwindles off, like you don't find each other attractive any more, you just have to because you can't have anyone else. Luckily (barring the last three weeks where I haven't seen him) me and Andy do not have that problem yet =P
Anyway, relationships are normally a lot more panic than they're worth. If he's not over his ex, after two years with you, you can't expect him to suddenly be over her. The fact that he's just started wearing the necklace again probably means he's started thinking about her again.
I'm so sorry Michelle, I wish there was something I could do *hugs*
I think it's disgusting that they still put down dogs for doing what's in their nature, instead of giving them a second chance. If someone punched me, I wouldn't get them put down over it. I guess it's just easy for some people to think of them as just peoples' sidekicks or whatever. Not as actual living beings, with emotions and problems.
I've never taken off my bra in front of a guy, I can't get up the guts to do it. Luckily my boyfriend is really nice about it - he didn't even ask why for a really long time, then when he did I just said that I'm insecure and don't really want to talk about it and he was perfectly fine =) my last boyfriend kept yelling at me about it.
Yeah I can't do anything, no buses are running, my parents don't want to drive, and I live miles away from anyone...I really hate being stuck in the house.
Well, it IS why Barbara Gordon's in a wheelchair, there isn't any other reason...Killing Joke fits in between two issues of Batman, one of which has Barbara up and about and the other has her in a wheelchair. I always refuse to accept any birth of the Joker as canon though.
The Arkham Asylum comic, Lovers and Madmen and Year One are also AMAZING, and I have Whatever Happened To The Caped Crusader? heading my way
Blade Runner, tonight I'm gonna watch Choke =)
I'm going to see Rammstein in February, then Sonisphere in August (which means Rammstein again!) as well as Evelyn Evelyn in April =)
I've been really enjoying Chuck Palahniuk recently, but you have to like slightly more disturbing but intellectually stimulating stuff. Invisible Monsters and Survivor are my favourites to recommend, then probably Fight Club, then Haunted, then Lullaby, then Choke. Neil Gaiman is great if you want a more gentle style, but amazingly well written - his early teen book The Graveyard Book is NOT just for kids, it's a really good read.
Oh yeah, I thought learning German was hard, but in Germany they start learning English at the age of seven just to be able to vaguely understand in at 15!
Oh I change. Used to be wool - especially cheap wool, I went crazy for that. Then it was canvases. Then buttons. Now it's normally clothes. But I'm too poor now =P