Posted by Bob (just Bob) on September 7, 1999, at 22:07:15
In reply to Re: No apologies attitude..., posted by Yardena on September 7, 1999, at 20:49:13
> As for the Freudian girlfriend, give her a couple of years out of training and maybe she'll be less of a hardliner.
Not a chance ... she was a Freudian (literary criticism) before she got into the Derner Institute and now she wants to go the whole nine yards: after the PhD, psychoanalytic training ... maybe a training analyst one day .... living in NYC, she can afford to be a hard-liner.
One funny (in retrospect) thing about wanting to hide depression from dates -- one argument my girlfriend and I had that focused on my inability to meet her needs and the things I couldn't do (like paying my bills, ack!) that concerned her. It happens that we met thru one of those on-line personals services (hah!) ... she said at one point in the argument that I should have put my inability to pay bills in my ad!! Geez, it was funny even at the time -- it's so patently ridiculous a notion that there's no way I could take it as a serious barb.
Anyway, it makes me wonder ... what would my personal ad look like if I focused on what I'm scared is the "real me" -- Mr. Depressed-since-he-was-eight-and-still-counting -- instead of how I want to portray myself .... That could be a good way of learning to laugh at myself.... ;^)
Cheers,
Bob
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