{"id":860,"date":"2009-11-11T11:26:26","date_gmt":"2009-11-11T19:26:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/?p=860"},"modified":"2009-11-11T11:26:26","modified_gmt":"2009-11-11T19:26:26","slug":"demonizing-nice-girls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/2009\/11\/11\/demonizing-nice-girls\/","title":{"rendered":"demonizing nice girls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I keep forgetting to write this, and I dont&#8217; have time now, but I don&#8217;t want to forget this again.<\/p>\n<p>Talking to T the other day about missing _, and she got irritated and said &#8220;There are much nicer girls than _.&#8221; I quipped about not knowing where they are, as it hasn&#8217;t been for a lack of trying to find them. I still laugh thinking about demonizing, I forget so easily that most of the people I&#8217;ve dated never got the chance to understand how I feel, and thus can&#8217;t seem to grasp that I&#8217;d be supporting them when they&#8217;re not present. I&#8217;ve been having a conversation lately with B where he keeps implying that he is saying things that upset or frustrate me. B doesn&#8217;t know me anymore, if he did, and I can&#8217;t help but feel wise and zen about offering advice to him across the tubes.<\/p>\n<p>Talking to J about missing _ and she asked if I missed her, or what she represented to me. I said that we fit well. What it represented not withstanding, I&#8217;ve had other opportunities for to fill that, that I&#8217;ve passed up on because they didn&#8217;t fit right. Also discussed how all of my introspection lately seems to be serving others much more than myself. It isn&#8217;t solving my problems. Although, I suppose, that&#8217;s not really the point.\u00a0J recommended I take a look at <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Mindful-Brain-Reflection-Attunement-Cultivation\/dp\/039370470X\">The Mindful Brain<\/a><\/em> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.palace.net\/llama\/psych\/dbt.html\">Dialectical Behavioral Therapy<\/a> for hints on reshaping and redefining my emotional associations with loneliness away from intimacy. We&#8217;ll see how that works. I sense a huge book order coming when I get paid.<\/p>\n<p>A asked me if our conversations felt like therapy and I told her not at all, because they&#8217;re conversations and not therapy. Combined with another comment about helping me, I&#8217;m feeling a flashback to M but without the arrogance. I feel like being social is getting me pent up again, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/?p=507\">complicated<\/a>. Complicated takes energy. Taking care and being mindful of others takes energy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I keep forgetting to write this, and I dont&#8217; have time now, but I don&#8217;t want to forget this again. Talking to T the other day about missing _, and she got irritated and said &#8220;There are much nicer girls than _.&#8221; I quipped about not knowing where they are, as it hasn&#8217;t been for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=860"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":861,"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860\/revisions\/861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.loftninjas.org\/rants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}