I went into GW2 with a jaded view; no real plans were in place, no strategy other than kill the enemy. 20 years later, we are still paying the price for that foolishness.
I am 3rd Generation Navy, joined in 91. Pop was an old Cold Warrior sub driver who had the keys to Armageddon for years. Big Bro is the Black Sheep (Army), and Gramps joined to fight the Japanese that killed his brother, only to be a gunner on a cruiser facing the Germans.
I went from a kid who had lived and traveled all over the country, to a Sailor who lived/traveled all over the globe, living abroad for almost a decade. I've seen poverty that would make the hardest Conservative cry, and seen government abuse that would make the biggest Statist Liberal scream for revolution.
Hi everybody! I have been looking at posts on narcs and narc abuse on here and if has really helped me out a lot. I am currently struggling with my situation and need some advice/support.
I met a narc last year, everything seemed to good to be true. Love bombing, always texting calling and taking me on dates. Everything changed when someone warned me about him out in public in front of him and who he is. This caused a conflict with us and the love bombing seized.
he would tell me that everything is okay and i can come and talk. He would set a time limit on me and kick me out after that.
he would then text me like everything was fine and we hung out again and after that he completely ghosted me for one week. He came back and texted me a week later laughing about the ghosting and acting like nothing had happened.
he continued to text me ( not like in the beginning) make plans with me, then on the day of the plans he would just ghost me. One day he would act interested the next silence.
i contacted him a month later and he acted like nothing happened. He was on a vacation and sent me a picture of another woman ( someone he allegedly met on the trip) to strike a reaction but i never gave him one. After the trip he came to my place and was extremely rude, accusing me of going on dates with a bunch of men. The next day he accused me of being an alcoholic and that he wanted nothing to do with me but said well maybe we can be "friends" then ghosted me
i assumed at this point it was over and i would never hear from him again. He contacted me on the holiday a month later acting like everything was great. We ended up hanging out a month or so later and when we hung out it went well, i thought things were going in the right direction.
after we hung out.. silence. I would try to text him and if he replied it would be very short then he just stopped replying. He ghosted me for almost three months. I thought he was done this time and of course he popped up again like nothing happened. At this point i was getting sick of if so i questioned him as to why he dissapeared and always does this. Of course he had some sob story about a injury and family member dying of cancer. I felt pity for him and he gave me an apology.. so i took him back stupidly.
things seemed to be going smooth for a couple months, of course until his family member died and his injury got better he never contacted me and was distant. Menawhile, i was there for him during the difficult time for him. He lied to me about the funeral and never wanted to chat. I was chasing him and he would always claim nothing was wrong but when i said i thought he used me when he was down he could not handle it and would always tell me he didnt care and to go away. I would get so upset i would try texting him to work it out he would barelt respond and if he did he would not be nice about it.
we did hang out a couple times after that, he would ignore me after. One day i was like hey i think you are seeing someone else, and i was like well ixam seeing someone so no problem if you are he said " buy bye good luck with your new guy stop contacting me" i was devastated and tried to get into contact with him for weeks then i just gave up and accepted it was over. He ended up contacting me a month later acting like everything was fine. He wanted to go out and have drinks i told him i would. He and i both seemed to have a great time. He ends up ignoring me again. I kept texting him trying to figure out what was wrong. He kept saying everything was fine and i said ok can we hang out again? He said maybe i was like why? He just kept saying maybe …
our last conversation we had… i said what is wrong ? He said nothing is wrong everything is fine. I asked him why he keeps saying maybe. He said " maybe but i dont want to see you right now" i said why? He saix " im just not feeling it, if i wanted to date i would" i said why did you contact me less then a week ago wanting to go out? He said i didnt.. even though he did. So i said should i just move on or what? He said whatever you want to do. So i said that he was really confusing me and asked him if he had anything more to say before i move on? My messages were turning green so i panicked he blocked me and reacted irrationally. I said " omg did you block me? My messages are not going through. Even texted him on my work phone asking what was up. And called him twice ( please dont judge me i know it is pathetic i never was this type of girl before him) so he replied and said " Ok I'll block you now" then immedietly blocked me. He has never blocked me before since I have met him he will just ghost. Is this ths final discard aka " grand finale? Did i just push him too far?
this has upset me so much its hard to even function.
While I am a Never Trumper, am concerned about the environment (hey, I like clean air and water, sue me), and agree we need some form of social safety net, I also belive we cannot afford to have Daddy Gubmint be the answer from cradle to grave. We have a HUGE bureaucracy that was never meant to be in place, too many rely on government to be their be all/end all support system, and too many suck on that government tit. We need term limits at all levels. We need to scale back SPENDING on a major level…while not reducing tax receipts, at least not for the forseeable future, until we get the budget balanced, and make headway on the national debt.
A lot of tongue biting happens, at least in my family.
Oh, and we're going to be in a major war inside of 5 years, so get ready for that.
Why do black people prefer thick, curvy women?
Clear as mud? Good.
On the flip side, the poorest among us usually has a car, a tv, and an obesity problem, which you don't really see elsewhere.
We as Americans by and large live in a protected bubble of ignorance about the rest of the world. Now, before my Eurozone affiliates sneer “told you!”, that's largely because we have what are essentially 50 different countries all jumbled into one, where there are at least (by my count, anyway) 4 different dialects of English alone, not to mention all the other languages floating around, and most people are getting rather Balkanized in their views. Travel is a luxury most can't really afford. Not when 90% of the population is one bad injury/illness away from bankruptcy. Yes, I am pro-UHC; even with it's inherent issues, it's better than what we have.
Why is it that when the Democrats absolutely love everyone to be LGBTP, they don't even acknowledge that Barack Obama and his husband Big Mike are homosexual, and he is the first homosexual president of the USA?
