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Mood: Tired
Date: Jun. 23, 2008
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I will be the first to admit I have such a struggle with relationships. I really do. The skills I have I just Gravitate twards bad company.  Company i keep because I am codependent anyway. 
Alright, The friendship i developed with a girl over a year ago was good for only 4 months. Its complex because her husband is my husbands friend.  Things went well, she was highly wounded up, probably just as codependent as I am.  I felt a since of happiness because i felt she really cared about me.  She encouraged me to do things, and at the same token she would talk about others behind their backs and slander them. I thought she respected me enough to be okay with all the baggage i told her, right away i jumped in and confide my whole life story into her, every bit a person could crusify me with.  well she got onto a site where i had blogged, to my surpise she read all my stuff all of it, and told others to as well, she is in her 40s, well i never confronted her but instead said I am so sorry you read all that stuff i wrote, i felt panic because the site i used was for my mental health.  Well, If that wasn't enough, she turned a friend against me, the friend forgave me and understood my intentions were not vindictive but my other friend told me she worried about me being so nieve, yet as time went on i gave her the benifit of the doubt and forgave, well i had a get together i planned for myself for my birthday. this friend of mine was so sparatic in planning that i couldn't even keep the plans straight i was trying to accomidate her, because in a sick way i cared about her even though she did what she's been doing. Well i changed plans about 4 times and the place we were to eat she said, she wasn't comming because she heard the place was dirty. I told her fine, I got off the phone and tore my room up. Tears flooded my eyes and i ripped all her photos up.

I later told her that hurt me, well she ran back to my other friend and tried to slander me so i told her without telling her my other firend told me anything that if she contiunes to treat me the way she does im never talking to her again, well she then kicked me to the curb saying i was crazy and that shed never talk to me again like this all was my fault or something.

About a month went by, she started talking again, i only apologized for what i was accountable for, she seemed to accept the apology and i got a half ass one, Im sure she still reminds others of my downfalls.   Like she does me of others. But, I try to again be christian and only be nice and deal with her as a friend or aquantance, i limit what i share now but the problem now is,

shes wanting to plan a get together at their house, and i know that suddenly everyone is going to go to that, but when it came to my thing for me i was tossed at the waste side, I forgive but i do find it quite hard to forget, in a way i know i'd be excluding myself the fun but i really don't feel like going. I was going to make an excuse or something. I just feel like Im not being treated with dignitiy and respect when it comes to me.  but when others are in control they get everyone to get together. Its just sad..






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June 24, 2008, 1:06 pm

Hi Chrissy,

  I have quoted here before in a blog, I don't think it was yours though. Oprah said it years ago, and I have never let it go far from my thoughts. When dealing with new people in my life.

The quote was this. "Don't let someone show you a hundred times, that they are a bad person. Believe them the first time.

This girl has already proved to you what kind of person she is. You don't need people like this in your life. She has showed you she has no idea what being a friend is.

But that is up to you. I used to think I could teach people how to treat me, but it isn't true. People get stuck in their ways. They won't even see they have a problem, much less try to change it.

You can do whatever you feel in your spirit what is the right thing for you. But I be damm if I would go to all that trouble to have an event, plus all that we woman do to get ready, to go to an event I wasn't even wanting to do anyway

Also I would be up front and truthful about it. I would just state what happened in the pass, and that I was not willing to do it again.,

This is your life. You only get this day once. Life is what you make of it. You just have to make your mind up, that enough is enough. I am done. I will not live like this another day.

I would rather spend my time alone then in the middle of drama every day. You are wasting years of your life that you will regret one day. Life flies by when it comes to age. When you look back years down the road you will know it was so wasted.

  It will take time anyway to learn life's lesson, but the reason we take so long to get it. Is because we waste too much  time on certain lessons trying to change them. But they won't change because they just are.

Take care sweetie. My best to you. I can tell you have come along way by what you wrote on my page yesterday, you are learning to feel what is true to your spirit and accepting it. That is the way to handle all of these lessons that come up. You can't change or fix anyone but yourself.

love&hugs,

Paris



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June 24, 2008, 5:57 am

Good morning.  Only you know whats best for you hon.  Something I try to do now is weigh the benefits and cons of the people that are in my life.  After having so many negative people I am careful to whom I keep in my life.  With that being said this "friend" does not sound like a very healthy person for you.  Ultimatly it is your decision to go or not.  Ask yourself if this is going to be a positive experience in your life or one that is going to cause you more distress?  If these other people are real friends then you can have them over another time but if everyone are just aquantainces then stop letting them rent the valuable space in your head :)  (LOL...if my therapist just saw me write that I think he'd have a heart attack...lol).

You can't control how others treat you but you can control your reaction to them and whether or not you associate with them.  We are all entitled to dignity and respect!

Hugs,

Jenn



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