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Because a lot of women have bought into all this as well, and reinforce it. He is just emotionally behind your needs, that is all. Let him know you don't think you two are looking for the same things but that you value his friendship, if he is fine with friendship you can help him learn better.

It just insults your intelligence. You feel either like he is trying to play you, or his understanding of how love and relationships works is just very poorly developed. Possibly a bit of both. Most people really do not know what love is, that it really is a multiple stage thing that takes time and is built up towards. Being someone who has been though a divorce likely because of the youthful ideas of love blinding us, I imagine you have had time to really think about it and realize just how out of touch the typical person is in regards to love. People think love just happens, and that is it. This poor boy has his head filled with chemical processes and does not know what to do with it. Add on to that societies idea of what women want in relationships, and the typical guy will play towards that. It is kind of insulting to have your needs boiled down to needing someone to say they love you and trying to offer you a stable place to live and someone to look after you. It is sexist, and your brain knows it. While you want someone who actually takes time to get to know you as a person and not to boil you down to a cliche. On the other hand you also recognize that a lot of guys use these kinds of ploys to play with women to use them, which can set off warning signs in your head. It also screams stalker. Sp you are stuck with one of three options ; clueless out of touch guy who is kind of sweet but has a sexist oversimplified view of you, douchebag trying to manipulate you, or obsessive stalker. You could try and take the time to explain things to him in hopes he is the first option and that he can have his viewpoint changed, however if he is a stalker you risk making things worse. Your best bet here actually seems to be to end things, make it clear you want to just be friends. Once he has accepted that, then explain in detail why you ended it and where he went wrong. That he was fulfilling his own needs and actually very oblivious to yours.

I used to own one of those

looks the same standing normally or walking on her hands

Is down with OPP

PINGU!

I am not anti-American either. I love the country. I love its history. Being so close to the USA has had a huge effect on Canadian culture as well, so being anti-American makes you at least semi anti-Canadian. I dislike what has happened to your government, your policies, and so on. However I still love the USA. When I say "Americanize" in quotes, it is because I am using a term that gets thrown around a lot. America is far from being America anymore, so the term is actually incorrect. What I mean is our current government is Neo-Con and follows the same far-right religious based ideas, steeped in Randian ideology.

It has been dropping as the current government has been gradually "Americanizing" us.

Someone who values their individuality actually has far more to offer me than someone who seeks a relationship as self redemption. Society teaches people to seek relationships as an affirmation of their male/female role in society. We are raised to see a mate as a "better half", etc. Someone who completes us. Every person I have dated (aside from my current gf) has been wired this way and as a such always wound up delegating the powershift to me.) It was very frustrating, even more so after I started understanding why it was happening and what it was. The statement "I have to focus on myself" is actually your first step towards actually having a real mature adult relationship, and proof you actually have far more to offer people than you think.

Was used as the model for an attempted run at a line of anatomically correct Ken dolls. Not because he was a perfect specimen, but because it saved resizing the molds.

Thinks he was a rutabaga in a previous life.

Ping!

In two I played Shuma/Zangief/Whoever I felt like for third spot most of the time. Mechagief Lariat Assist was godlike at mid tier character levels. I tend to favor mindgames. Shuma is great for mindgames, and has some very underrated tricks. Hes one of those characters that is better than people think he is.

I've played Shuma since MSH, he is my main in any game he is in. I suck at MVC3 though since I've managed less than 8 hours play time in it :( My Shuma is decent, but I just don't have a cohesive team. So far its Shuma, Hulk because Hulk is pretty easy to play using what I know from his earlier versions (I played him a lot in MVC1) and Dormamu for assists. My Dormie sucks. I finally replaced my PS3 a few months back just before winding up homeless, and wound up leaving it and my stick in Kingston :(

I really have no clue how you guys have so much trouble finding girl gamers. I am a girl gamer, just about every girl I have dated is a gamer, most of my female friends are gamers.

It was actually a youtube science series I had watched that had stated they were concerned they weren't going to find it. They had been consistently accurate throughout its run so I took the statement to have at least some level of truth to it. Of course something directly from LHC people's would trump that.

What if I beat you at SF4 with T Hawk instead? Or Third Strike or ST? I sadly have not had access to a console enough to really learn MVC3 very well :( Which makes me sad, my Shuma needs to eat people!

I find age useless for finding a partner in all regards. I have a general rule of nobody under 25 for anything long term and nobody under 20 for casual play, however often meet people that just does not work for. It seems more general than decisive.

Actually it was really strongly looking like we wouldn't find it. That would have sent 40 years of physics on its ear. Not that that is a bad thing. In a nerd way, this is almost like finding Pym Particles. Though closer to what potentially could make the Vision work than Antman/Giantman. Being able to manipulate these at some point will be huge, even more than just effecting mass. It is the kind of discovery which literally changes everything in our small universe. Manipulation of Higgs particles can mean making things weigh effectively nothing, or everything. This changes everything.

Explains why my computer bogs down when I read your posts.

*removes herself from the list*

Hurray for not being deleted!!!!

You should also set limits of how far you can bend on certain things. What things are pretty much set in stone deal breakers, which ones can be altered somewhat, and which are very flexible. For instance I am Polyamorus. It is something that is a deal breaker, however I can negotiate on how that side of me is expressed.

"and it was all to his whim, not mine." That isn't compromise. "You find what works for the both of you." This is compromise What you are describing as compromise is giving up, and what you describe as a happy medium is what true compromise is actually about. The word often gets misused to manipulate people though so the misunderstanding is understandable.