(07-07-2015 03:08 )wackawoo Wrote: These threads are popping up a lot lately; people being duped into thinking they are some how special, they never learn.
Did you deep down think you was going to get a courting?
I'm not sure what you mean - did I think I was going to start dating her? Apart from the fact that I'm happily married, there was never a suggestion from me of anything inappropriate towards her - that's just not who I am. I was there for her as an online friend because she asked me to be, many hundreds of times. To be brutally honest, dating Elle would be a flippin' nightmare. And she knows that! Also, how have I been 'duped into thinking I am special'? Is it arrogant to say that I am the only person she has written to privately on numerous occasions
just because it is true? If you ever find out why she started writing to me then let me know because it was her decision, not mine. That is the only thing that was special.
(07-07-2015 06:36 )Goodfella3041 Wrote: I think that what people are picking up on, Forum Style, however blunt the expression, is that you have so far been reluctant to acknowledge what Raider007 so astutely observed:
(06-07-2015 16:40 )Raider007 Wrote: It's incredibly flattering to have a hot girl confide in you ... When a girl actually wants to communicate gratis it's a little thrill. And it does make you feel a little special
I'll come back to the "hot girl" comment in a second - but for the rest of it you are definitely correct. I remember one night when we'd sent eachother so many DMs that we ended up treating the DM system on Twitter like a messenger service [she would write, I would write] while she smoked a cigarette and it was so easy to chat to her, even about emotional stuff. It was a pretty full-on discussion earlier in the night and I was trying to take her mind off things so she could sleep with a smile on her face. So we joked and talked about other subjects, discussed what we were going to do later that day. She wanted to keep talking but I had to inject my arthritis medicine at that time so she said she'd owe me one, which I could claim back at a later date. She thanked me for being there and I told her not to worry about things because, if she was true to herself, things would work out. After we ended the chat, I sat there in front of my PC and smiled. There was no thought about 'man, that was a good FREE chat with her'. No thought about the thrill of it. Just a sense of calming someone down and making them feel a little better about themselves. I'm sure that all sounds like a Disney family movie to most people but if that makes me arrogant or smug then fine, I am those things.
(07-07-2015 06:36 )Goodfella3041 Wrote: The first step in moving on may thus be to simply admit to yourself that you pursued this relationship -- at least in part -- because of the ego trip it sent you on to have a "famous" girl single you out and talk to you as if to a friend.
As I said in a previous post, I managed to separate the woman who wrote to me about her personal life from the naked, oily presenter I saw on my television. It wasn't a choice, I had to - because the things she was telling me about made me concerned for her physical well-being
and her state of mind. You describe her as "famous", I genuinely did not see her that way. I know that seems unlikely because she was moderately famous but my ONLY reason for trying to help her was because I cared about her, however redundant that seems now. I did pursue the friendship but not because of what it did to my ego. I did it because I didn't want to see her make the same mistake[s] that I did. I know I've said this before but if you had heard some of the things she had told me, especially considering what I had told her some months earlier, you would be concerned too. I apologise for not going into more detail, but I can't.
Life is a mirror, and I know my faults. I don't think this is one of them.