Posted by noa on March 20, 2003, at 17:06:35
In reply to Re: I'm having a really hard time., posted by gabbix2 on March 20, 2003, at 16:31:47
"Being there for you"--a story for contrast (really, the total other end of the continuum from your boyfriend):
My friend's daughter was visiting with her fiance for a weekend, and the daughter came down with a stomach illness. My friend woke up in the night to the sounds of her daughter vomiting. Motherly instinct being what it is, she went to the bathroom to find the daughter's fiance right there with her, holding her hair and her forehead for her while she retched. Just like a mom would.
Ok, so most guys aren't gonna be quite like that, right? But there is surely a lot of in between that would be better than your clueless guy who thinks he's all that as a boyfriend because he stopped at the 7-11 for you four hours later!
Sorry if I'm jumpin on the negative bandwagon too fast (this has come back to haunt me with at least one friend who complained about her hubby and then was mad at me for saying he had treated her badly), but what you described about his behavior and utter cluelessness just pushed one of my personal buttons!!
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