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05 Apr 2025 04:23 PM
05 Apr 2025 04:23 PM
@Sparky79 thank you Sparky79. you are a kind and caring person. i will remember your words. your gf is lucky to have you and i am sure she knows that 🙂
05 Apr 2025 04:23 PM
05 Apr 2025 04:23 PM
@greenpea not sure I will might watch something I have recorded. I like scrabble my 9 year old grandson beats me ar chess
05 Apr 2025 04:25 PM
05 Apr 2025 04:25 PM
@greenpea yeah, ex girlfriend, after she dumped me for my "selfish and gutless" actions in trying to escape this planet. One of the many ripples, consequences of surviving.
05 Apr 2025 04:28 PM
05 Apr 2025 04:28 PM
@Gibbs seriously i love scrabble! i play with my mum when i go and visit her. i am not that good at chess but will give it a go 🙂
05 Apr 2025 04:33 PM
05 Apr 2025 04:33 PM
@Sparky79i have had thoughts tried once or twice as a teenager but now am determined to make a go at what is left of my life. not waste another minute 🙂
05 Apr 2025 04:38 PM
05 Apr 2025 04:38 PM
@Sparky79 i want a caring soul. a forgiving soul. someone who is a friend first but is also a heathcliffe!
05 Apr 2025 04:40 PM
05 Apr 2025 04:40 PM
@greenpea well I'm glad you're still here and everyone else who's thought about and or survived. Knowing the grief, damage and pain I've caused I'll never try it again. Quite a lesson to learn as well, seeing all the emotion, all the grief, all the pain and suffering I've caused, the chain of events I triggered was more than life changing it felt like the apocalypse at first.
05 Apr 2025 04:45 PM
05 Apr 2025 04:45 PM
@Sparky79 you are a good guy Sparky79. it is hard to get past guilt.
05 Apr 2025 04:45 PM - edited 05 Apr 2025 04:47 PM
05 Apr 2025 04:45 PM - edited 05 Apr 2025 04:47 PM
@greenpea We all need a caring, understanding, patient and forgiving soul, especially when life and bad people have damaged us. The thing I need to learn is to not sacrifice myself, speak up if something upsets me or I don't agree with, rather than giving my queen everything she wants at the cost of myself. Gotta love the scars from being married to a narcissist for 17 years.
05 Apr 2025 04:55 PM
05 Apr 2025 04:55 PM
@Sparky79 wow my mental health nurse once said to me she would rather deal with a psychopath than a narcissist! wow you did well lasting so long! "speak up if something upsets me or I don't agree with, rather than giving my queen everything she wants at the cost of myself. " yes it is a juggling act isnt it. relationships can be hard at the best of times but sometimes you just have to take a gamble and jump in!
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