I want to get back into the routine of visiting African countries - and lately I’ve just been so fascinated by Mozambique. My research is so detailed man! And Senegal is next on the list!
And she just said - her brand was not built on REST!
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Gosh this has given this season that I’m in so much meaning.
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Glad I saw it right before Monday!
Fundamentalism. Especially in the educated, middle-class circles. Dating was once a curiosity-driven, gracious affair. Now it is a trauma-informed, rigid vetting system. You don't get the benefit of the doubt. No clean slates. No grace: just caution.
And we can't agree to disagree anymore. It is my way or your way. Anything else is toxic. And if you are the patient one who's keen on finding a middle-ground - that it's not me versus you, but us versus the problem - you'll be called manipulative.
Being the good one gets you punished; simply because, for them, a good relationship is them always getting their way. And when you are too good, when you are too patient, then you are after his/her money. Or weak. When you put your foot down, you are too controlling.
It must always be happy too - the relationship. Pleasing and perfect at all times. Anything else is a sign: that means the relationship is not working out. So we don't try at all to make things work. We just ship out at the 1st inconvenience.
We lack individuality as we have been groupies all our lives. When we come face to face with individuality, it feels like an attack on us. You could be as loving as a pet, as dotting as a painter's brushstroke, as patient as a saint in meditation, but she/he will still judge you on the preconceived notions she/he had about your kind.
So you are not just dating them anymore; you are dating their friends too - both offline and online friends. Navigating dating traumas - that you did not cause - and have nothing to do with you as a couple.
Too much power struggle; very little camaraderie.