Comments by "Jeremy" (@josiah5776) on "Better Bachelor"
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@weaponsman2057 Tell me about it. Years back, my ex would withhold my son from me during court ordered visitation, demanding more money. The cops would do nothing, claiming it was a civil matter. However, if I dropped him off just 5 minutes late on those rare occasions I actually got visitation, it was a criminal matter and they threatened me with arrest. Taking it to court was useless and a waste of money. All the judge did was have her promise not to do it again. Of course, she did it again with the full confidence that she would get away with it. She was right. She raised my son to be a weak, soft, simp, f'nist ally who hates my guts. My story is just one of many, and it is the reality behind the "where are all the fathers" BS the media and government push.
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This is just typical female game playing. The average man will run away, and the Chads will game the gamer. When the smoke clears after age 30, she will complain about being alone and blame men.
I'm on the far side of 50 and have participated in numerous rodeos. Most of what I have learned came through painful mistakes, as there were not guys like Joker around to warn and educate my generation of men. Below are some red flags that I have identified over time. They are tailored to me, but hopefully some of the younger men out there can take something of value from them:
Here are the filters I used for deciding whether to end a casual relationship, or move to a more serious one. Please note these are my criteria and one size does not fit all. Just examples.
- Love-bombing. Intense flattery and attention, with a push to rush intimacy very fast. Usually the manipulative set to a later abusive spike.
- Drama, defined for me as negative attention for something not my fault. Example: Venting about a bad day at work is cool. Blaming me for it is not.
- Extreme extraversion or constant high energy. Nothing wrong with that, it's just not for me.
- Frequent criticism. "I'm only trying to help you" has been the battle cry of every toxic partner I've ever had.
- Pity plays. Trying to get things from you by making you feel sorry for them.
- Manipulation of any kind (pity play is one of these). These are sometimes hard to spot, because they masquerade as legitimate things. However, if you often find yourself feeling uncomfortable about things which you do for or tolerate from her, it is probably manipulation.
- Double binds; A subtle, but nasty, way of manipulating you by giving you two choices, both of which are unattainable. This is highly advanced manipulation. If you experience it, run immediately, run fast, and run far.
- Actions don't match their words. Also lying.
- Future faking. Constantly promising things that are very desirable to you, but never materialize.
- Vastly different spiritual and/or political world views. Tried it many times. Don't fool yourself into assuming tolerance and love will overcome it. It will explode one day.
- Problems from toxic family members for whom they will not set boundaries.
- Getting angry or emotional if you don't respond to texts or calls immediately.
- Demanding to know where you are and what you are doing all the time.
- Expecting to be inseparably joined at the hip with you in all things. Some people like this and that is fine for them. I am not one of them.
- Going silent or disappearing a lot and then expecting to pick up where you left off; I am all for having our own space, but this would be days or weeks at a time; A short, "Hi, hope you're well. I've been really busy" is not difficult to do.
- Only contacting you when they need something.
The following are not bad occasionally, but red flags if they are the norm, especially early in a relationship:
- Constant need of help (often financial, but can be other).
- Constant "advice" to you about what you should do, how you should look, what you should wear, how you should act, etc.
- Every day is a crisis of some sort (financial, emotional, career, etc.)
- Needing lots of attention all the time.
- Getting their feelings hurt a lot from everything you do.
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