Originally Posted by WWWP

Certainly. Insecurity and fear of rejection = people-pleasing or people-pushing away. Both are forms of manipulative behavior.

Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien

There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.

Originally Posted by The Batlord

... got any grey hairs yet?

Originally Posted by WWWP

Not a one. You still have hair?

Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien

There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.

Originally Posted by jadis

Trolls,

not to bully you or anything...

But when you say something like this to grown adults (I'm now talking outside the family circle), it comes across as the inability to listen. "Shut up and don't make me uncomfortable with this kind of talk so let's draw a curtain of false positivity on the whole thing" is what it really means.

Originally Posted by Trollheart

Sorry, sorry.

Jadis, you're awesome and everyone loves you.
Better?

Originally Posted by ribbons

TH, stop using that couch as a shield and contrivance of false shyness. Covering yourself in upholstery does not conceal your manipulations.