On Mon, 05 May 2008 09:07:34 -0700, Les Albert <lalbert1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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wrote:
>On Mon, 05 May 2008 10:58:14 -0500, QueBarbara
><que.barbara.lanc@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>On Mon, 05 May 2008 14:29:33 GMT, "Lesmond" <lesmond@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>wrote:
>>>On Sun, 04 May 2008 22:06:09 -0500, QueBarbara wrote:
>>>>On Sun, 04 May 2008 18:56:14 -0600, Greg Goss <gossg@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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>>>>>I reach that grade of friend****p better with women than with men.
Men
>>>>>have great difficulty revealing vulnerabilities to each other.
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>>>>I'm the opposite. I've had a hard time trusting women since being
>>>>ostracized from two cliques, once in the 7th grade and once in the
>>>>11th.
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>>>I had my problems in 1st, 4th and 8th grades, with the 8th grade one
being
>>>the worst...yes total ostracization.. This is why I take the bullying
of my
>>>boy so seriously.
>>>But it has never put me off women. Oh...you know what I mean.
>>
>>I forgot, it happened again at my first job in Houston back in '90-91.
>>That put me off all women for a while, until I learned how to
>>distinguish which ones were still into playing those games and which
>>ones were passed that. There is a clique where I work now, among the
>>secretarial staff, and we recently had a couple of good secretaries
>>leave because they were tired of the b.s.
>
>There is a TV car ad that says, "Life is like high school but with
>money.". Maybe that's true for a lot of people.
>
>>Finding women with similar interests as me is hard. I'm weird.
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>What are your interests?
>
Long walks on the beach, warm puppies, ****d mud wrestling . . .oops,
sorry, wrong NG. Doing stuff outdoors like hiking, sailing, kayaking,
bike riding; reading, listening to music, AFCA. My husband jokes that
I'm missing the shopping gene and crafting gene that a lot of women
seem to have.
--
QueBarbara


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