Because using a cattle brand implies a lack of trust.

[Sweetdeath]

Ya knows Ali, now. She's always SOO suspicious of everyone...  
Edit: But seriously, having one person cheat on you is grounds for thinking that "all women are the same"?

LOL, no, no~
Ah, i am seriously having a hard time posting tonight. I apologize.


He is just hurt is all, because it was his first relationship. I have never been cheated on, but i know that if i was--- i would be very hurt and probably not trusting either. Being cheated on is a horrible thing, i cannot imagine it is easy to recover from.
Trust is fragile.

[Ali]

SD - Sorry, I should have clarified.  I wasn't referring to your friend specifically, I was more thinking aloud about "nice guys" in general.  Every time I've met a man that calls himself "a nice guy who gets screwed over by women," he's really not nice at all.  It's more like he's got a script in his head about the object of his affections ("object" being the operative word) and he gets pissed when she doesn't follow the script.  And then turns that around and makes it about women, and why they are bitches, and why they really crave someone that treats them like shit, and not that it's really about him and about how he couldn't buy her affections by taking her on a vacation or whatever bullshit he did that makes him think that she's now obligated to be his woman.  Haha, that was weirdly specific.   

[Buddy]

SD - Sorry, I should have clarified.  I wasn't referring to your friend specifically, I was more thinking aloud about "nice guys" in general.  Every time I've met a man that calls himself "a nice guy who gets screwed over by women," he's really not nice at all.  It's more like he's got a script in his head about the object of his affections ("object" being the operative word) and he gets pissed when she doesn't follow the script.  And then turns that around and makes it about women, and why they are bitches, and why they really crave someone that treats them like shit, and not that it's really about him and about how he couldn't buy her affections by taking her on a vacation or whatever bullshit he did that makes him think that she's now obligated to be his woman.  Haha, that was weirdly specific.   

This and guys complaining about being "friend zoned" really irritate me. It's like they expect the world to give them what they want for just being a nice. That is just selfish thinking.

[Sweetdeath]

Ali and Budhorse:

Yes, and yes.
i completely agree with that. sadly, a lot of men feel like they can't just be friends with women. their fucking loss.


(haha, i like your descriptions, Ali.)

[Tank]

Ya knows Ali, now. She's always SOO suspicious of everyone...  
Edit: But seriously, having one person cheat on you is grounds for thinking that "all women are the same"?

Rationally no, irrationally yes. Emotional pain can be worse and longer lasting than physical pain. If a person really 'puts themselves out there' and makes themselves emotionally vulnerable and is betrayed (particularly when young and in love for the first time) the consequences can be devastating. And it's not unreasonable to expect a young inexperienced person to react in an irrational manner simply to defend there own shattered ego.

[DeterminedJuliet]

Ya knows Ali, now. She's always SOO suspicious of everyone...  
Edit: But seriously, having one person cheat on you is grounds for thinking that "all women are the same"?

Rationally no, irrationally yes. Emotional pain can be worse and longer lasting than physical pain. If a person really 'puts themselves out there' and makes themselves emotionally vulnerable and is betrayed (particularly when young and in love for the first time) the consequences can be devastating. And it's not unreasonable to expect a young inexperienced person to react in an irrational manner simply to defend there own shattered ego.

Fair enough. I guess its easy for us "old married people" to forget what it's like sometimes. Though, even when I was teenager, I don't think I would have painted an entire gender as bad people. But I might be a minority. People have always told me that I act old for my age.