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Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Calgary, Alberta
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Re: Girlfriend wants to take it slow
dude. take tsmo's advice, seriously.
you're in for a whole lotta bullshit if you continue this way. I don't know either of you, but this is what I see, and here's my 2 cents, take it or leave it.
Since I'm playing lots of Halo right now (8-10 hours today) the thing that comes to mind is, when the little dudes go "Run Away!"
yeah man, run away. you're in for a serious waste of time. sounds like she's hung up on the previous relationship and is transfering allot of that onto you. she has no idea she's doing this, but it looks like that to me.
you two are at different levels. you're a horny young male. just look around, someone acceptable will fuck you. she's going through all her woman mysteries about security and trust and all kinds of shit 18 year old guys have zero to do with.
that's not a bad thing, everything happens at the right time for people. this is not your time for being a secure stable guy. its just not the truth. align your intentions with exactly what you are at this stage, or else you'll both be unhappy. find the truth, it may not be easy.
my point is, like he said, cut your losses now. otherwise, you're gonna be extremely frustrated, and you'll develop some serious problems as you try to reconcile this with the fact that you truly like and care about this person. this conflict will manifest in other, possible very hurtful ways. no good shall come of this (haha, where's that line from?)
as far as working to make her feel more safe, that's an impossible task, she's just not ready. you don't have a couple years to wait do you? if so, by all means, but I say just book it. be her friend, but that's it.
you're gonna get yourself into a bad situation of being always reacting to her, constantly trying to read her to see how she feels and always adjusting your behaviour to fit what you think she might want. bad bad bad bad bad !!! bad place to be my friend, get thee away. its a passive-aggressive trap. even if its not malicious, when she snaps out of it, she'll see that you're always on edge, trying to read her and she'll be like "grow some balls" and she'll be really put off by it all.
in conclusion. well, read what I said and draw your own. the last bit is the most important. you won't be in your truth, you'll be reacting to her, so she gets a wishy-washy reacting guy, not what she wants. its a lose-lose man.
hope this helps. let us know how it goes.
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