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Sheriff Cad

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I’m not sure if I’m trying to protect my feelings or his. I feel like I have the weird opposite problem in this situation where I’m scared I’m going to stop loving the person instead of the other way around and I’m scared of the hurt that will give them. I had a similar episode to this early on in my relationship with my ex-husband, where I had a night I sat awake in bed inconsolable and in a shitload of pain, wondering “what if I don’t actually like him?” and the idea that I didn’t made me want to puke. That’s the same fear and gut feeling I’m having now, just also enhanced because those initial worries about my ex were correct.
Thats the same thing in different clothing - you're saying you're protecting his feelings, but thats not your job. Certainly not at this stage of a relationship. You're using that as an out so you don't have to take the risk and put yourself out there. He's a grown man, he can put his feelings out there if he wants to. And so can you!

Don't want to be too forceful with how I say it, but DO IT ! :)
 
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Thats the same thing in different clothing - you're saying you're protecting his feelings, but thats not your job. Certainly not at this stage of a relationship. You're using that as an out so you don't have to take the risk and put yourself out there. He's a grown man, he can put his feelings out there if he wants to. And so can you!

Don't want to be too forceful with how I say it, but DO IT ! :)
Doing like my wife does on many subjects, anxiety takes hold then goes looking for every possible reason to self sabotage.
 

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Doing like my wife does on many subjects, anxiety takes hold then goes looking for every possible reason to self sabotage.
Believe me, if I could swap out woman brain for literally anything else, I would. It is fucking torture.
 
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I get way more chicks hitting on me in my 50s than I ever did in my 20s and 30s. Daddy issues is very real.

My twice divorced friend is having a fucking field day right now and I'm watching from the sidelines.
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I'm going to give a lighter update to post-divorce dating.

I recently realized that every girl I have gone on even a single date with was a C-cup or larger. It has been glorious.
 
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Sheriff Cad

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I get way more chicks hitting on me in my 50s than I ever did in my 20s and 30s. Daddy issues is very real.

My twice divorced friend is having a fucking field day right now and I'm watching from the sidelines.
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I get more chicks blatantly looking at me/trying to talk to me even when my wife and kids are with me now that I'm almost 50 than I did when I was younger. It makes the whole "gross old men were looking at me" thing chicks say all the time seem to be serious projection. Y'all are the ones looking at us, hoes.
 

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Doing like my wife does on many subjects, anxiety takes hold then goes looking for every possible reason to self sabotage.

That's just what I was thinking and there's only one way to handle it.

Believe me, if I could swap out woman brain for literally anything else, I would. It is fucking torture.
PM me his info. I'll fix it. Don't click the spoilers if you are koushirou. I said don't click, you can't handle the plan. I'll call him and tell him to just buy her a fucking ticket to NY already
 
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That's just what I was thinking and there's only one way to handle it.


PM me his info. I'll fix it. Don't click the spoilers if you are koushirou. I said don't click, you can't handle the plan. I'll call him and tell him to just buy her a fucking ticket to NY already
Just, please, don’t show him my Politics post history…
 
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Have talked with my parents, my brother, my cousins. Parents’ first thought was yeah, go try and stay with him for a bit. Brother’s first thought was why do I feel like I need to end it? Cousins all said to just try because why not?

There are times when we hang out online and I think I just feel like doing something else but I feel like I need to stay. Lots of times where I feel like I just need space. Lots of times when I just want to make decisions without having to consider someone else’s opinions or feelings along with it. There’s a big part of me that just wants freedom, I guess? And I don’t think I can get that if I’m committed to someone. Are those just normal feelings inside relationships, too? I honestly feel like I don’t even know what a real one is or even what actual love is. Feel like I’m an idiot teenager who just has no clue about anything. I don’t know how any of this actually works. It’s just a constant back and forth of wanting to be with him and wanting to run away.

I worry that what if it is an issue of affection? Christ that would fucking break him if I figured out I just wasn’t that into him, and he was just convenient. I feel like I only want him around when I need him. Is that normal?

I'd say don't spend all this time waxing philosophical. Go for it. Simple as.
 
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Just, please, don’t show him my Politics post history…

You should be more worried about explaining that poopsock medal under your avatar. Also, why did they puss out and call it brown sock instead of poopsock?
 

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Just, please, don’t show him my Politics post history…
Brings up an interesting question though, if he lives in NYC it means it's about an 85% chance he's a liberal, even if a white male. Have you discussed politics with him at all? If he has opposite politics as you, is it going to be a problem for you? For him?
 

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Brings up an interesting question though, if he lives in NYC it means it's about an 85% chance he's a liberal, even if a white male. Have you discussed politics with him at all? If he has opposite politics as you, is it going to be a problem for you? For him?
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Brings up an interesting question though, if he lives in NYC it means it's about an 85% chance he's a liberal, even if a white male. Have you discussed politics with him at all? If he has opposite politics as you, is it going to be a problem for you? For him?
Politics never got brought up until this last visit, mostly because I never wanted to because it originally just being something casual meant it shouldn't really matter. It really only came up because I had asked about the getting knocked up hypothetical. I mean, I knew right from the start what his politics were going to be...he's a Jewish guy living in Brooklyn and runs a bike shop. He doesn't have a problem with my politics, and just jokes now that he has a thing for sneaky conservatives. I had that on the list of things that probably made it a dealbreaker to start. My ex-husband was liberal also, and generally I just didn't want to talk to him about politics, yet he would force it constantly and basically shame me for it at the same time. If he wanted to go to his Bernie Bro rally when it came to town, that was fine with me. You go do you. But when I suggested it might be interesting to go to a Trump rally once just to see, he damn near threatened to leave me. I don't want that kind of political dynamic again and I don't want to have to feel like I need to censor myself. New guy says I don't need to censor anything around him. I guess we'll see one day when I accidentally drop a "faggot" bomb in front of him while I'm road raging at some asshole.
 

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Politics never got brought up until this last visit, mostly because I never wanted to because it originally just being something casual meant it shouldn't really matter. It really only came up because I had asked about the getting knocked up hypothetical. I mean, I knew right from the start what his politics were going to be...he's a Jewish guy living in Brooklyn and runs a bike shop. He doesn't have a problem with my politics, and just jokes now that he has a thing for sneaky conservatives. I had that on the list of things that probably made it a dealbreaker to start. My ex-husband was liberal also, and generally I just didn't want to talk to him about politics, yet he would force it constantly and basically shame me for it at the same time. If he wanted to go to his Bernie Bro rally when it came to town, that was fine with me. You go do you. But when I suggested it might be interesting to go to a Trump rally once just to see, he damn near threatened to leave me. I don't want that kind of political dynamic again and I don't want to have to feel like I need to censor myself. New guy says I don't need to censor anything around him. I guess we'll see one day when I accidentally drop a "faggot" bomb in front of him while I'm road raging at some asshole.
Call him a retarded faggot. Ultimate litmus test
 
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Just, please, don’t show him my Politics post history…
I'm a middle-aged, divorced white guy in the Washington DC dating scene that used to work for USAID.

If any of the women I've seen in the last 3 years came across my posts in the Mike Brown thread, I'd never get laid in this town again.
 
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Some people are just not right but together they work out, and work out great. I knew a guy years ago that was just a step ahead of the law all the time. I lost contact with him and talked to his wife not long ago. Turns out I knew her back then. She lived across the street from him. Said she never thought about him at all until she was asked to ID him in a lineup when someone stole some guns. Turns out it wasn't him.

Nowdays they are married, own 50 acres. He owns an environmental business servicing Dow Chemical and she gets to take the Dow shuttle (small jet) from Freeprot, TX to Michigan every other week on "business". Both their kids just finished college and one of them has a business of his own now and the daughter does some medical stuff that was over my head. Neither one of them have a college degree.

You never know I guess.
 

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I get way more chicks hitting on me in my 50s than I ever did in my 20s and 30s. Daddy issues is very real.

My twice divorced friend is having a fucking field day right now and I'm watching from the sidelines.
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Dating in your late 30s and onwards as a dude with your life together is unbelievable. The tables have completely flipped and you pretty much have your pick of whatever you want.

Also - completely unrelated to dating, or marriage or whatever. I was completely unprepared for the first time I interviewed a young, attractive woman for a position and she told me in basically the most direct way possible "if there is ANYTHING you need to see from me for me to get this job, just let me know."

I'm 46. I'm married, I've got a pretty good moral compass, I like to think I'm a pretty ethical guy. I treat people fairly, and I act with integrity.

And then you realize how easy it is to fall into that trap. Because you've got someone sitting here just begging for this and she's willing to use whatever she has to get it. That's 100% how people get corrupted into sex blackmail or money or whatever - and this was my first brush with it. You think this shit only happens to Hollywood scumbags or politicians and then next thing you know you've got a chick asking if you've got a casting couch, and there's a part of you thinking "well maybe...." before you shake your head out of it because this could legitimately ruin everything you've ever built and done.

I suppose it's the kind of lesson you need to have enough life experience for before you get to it, and just hope you've learned enough to pass the test.