Second chance after disappearing act?
I have learned to be fairly resilient when it comes to dating. After your ego is bruised or your heart is broken, you eventually manage ways to keep it moving. What happens when those classy individuals who faded into oblivion without explanation return to the scene of the crime?
My friend Justin is going through this now with a young woman he met last spring. She stopped returning his calls and he was never sure why. She claims that she was afraid they were getting too close too fast. Of course, now she is ready.
Why does it seem like the moment we have hit our stride again and moved past the dating misadventure, people who blew their chances come back? That is one of those dating situations that always baffles me. Why do people do that? What do they expect?
I think people can change their bad dating behavior or habits, but your character is probably going to remain the same. Do you give second chances to people who seem to want one?
f someone from your past asked for a second chance, how would you handle it?
By Wise Diva, Misadventures in Atlanta Dating Blog
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The Reanimated Corpse of Swiss (now with titanium-infused bionic w@ng)
May 4th, 2011
4:50 pm
You’re welcome, Leggs…
Uh, what did I do?
Dan - Simply....Superior
May 4th, 2011
4:50 pm
@abc
what it takes is not risking the lives of (more) soldiers, people over sees, and the potential of enflaming the rage of 6 billion people becuase you want proof?
Arrogant, imperious, fine – thank me later for saving lives; I don’t care what you feel you’re entitled to.
….would be my words on CNN if I were President and someone asked this question of me.
SexyCool
May 4th, 2011
4:51 pm
“How do you know that that woman is not a man?”
Just yesterday, I asked this dude at work if this manly looking TSA agent that I see sometimes is gay. He looked at me and fell out laughing. Once he gathered himself, he says, “That’s a man. He’s taking hormones and is supposed to be having gender reassignment surgery.”
When he saw the look on my face, he laughed for two minutes straight. (Cause I *know* I’ve seen that *lady* in the women’s bathroom.)
Willie Dynamite
May 4th, 2011
4:53 pm
cba – check out a few games, real good talent. AND you always hear about Soccer Moms but I’ll tell you pound for pound the Baseball Moms will give them a run for the money. Leave the ducks alone and check out the other Birds.
Sassy Me...Obama got Osama :-)
May 4th, 2011
4:53 pm
Swiss, Leggs was thanking you for your 4:44.
Now I’m thanking you for it as well…especially the last line. That was a good post.
Leggs
May 4th, 2011
4:53 pm
@swiss ~ just your 4:44. Thanks for saying all of that.
Leggs
May 4th, 2011
4:55 pm
When he saw the look on my face, he laughed for two minutes straight. (Cause I *know* I’ve seen that *lady* in the women’s bathroom.)
@SexyC ~ immediately of the video 2 weeks ago of 2 teenagers beating up another transgender for using the ladies room at a McDonald’s.
Leggs
May 4th, 2011
4:56 pm
immediately THOUGHT of….
Sassy Me...Obama got Osama :-)
May 4th, 2011
4:56 pm
I have not heard “SPED” in years!!!
For some reason Simple the word SPED comes to mind when reading her. It probably is a regular but oh well….
Sassy1
May 4th, 2011
4:56 pm
Time for me to ride out!! The roads is calling.
Leggs
May 4th, 2011
4:58 pm
The nicest place 2 be is in someone’s THOUGHTS!
The safest place 2 be is in someone’s PRAYERS!
And the best place 2 be is in… GODS HANDS!
Hope you all have a great and relaxing evening!
Willie Dynamite
May 4th, 2011
5:00 pm
Leggs – somebody probably already said it but I think our S lady would make a great date for your IS guy. You should hook it up.
cba
May 4th, 2011
5:01 pm
Sassy Me...Obama got Osama :-)
May 4th, 2011
5:01 pm
I think our S lady would make a great date for your IS guy.
y’all goin down. I hope the don’t have any kids together….is
SexyCool
May 4th, 2011
5:03 pm
WillieD – when I read that, I thought about Is-Is.
Leggs
May 4th, 2011
5:04 pm
Dang, that was good, WillieD…I’m cracking up at you too SassyMe.
cba
May 4th, 2011
5:04 pm
Sassy, same thought. The singular guy and the plural woman
Leggs
May 4th, 2011
5:05 pm
@SexyC ~ I see you’re in the fray too. What a memorable, yet scary thing for me to have witnessed!!
Leggs
May 4th, 2011
5:05 pm
Oh now, cba is jumping in the ruckus!
SexyCool
May 4th, 2011
5:06 pm
Jack Sprat could eat no fat. His wife could eat no lean.
Mo (aka Moeisha)
May 4th, 2011
5:07 pm
Willie D – I agree with you about WW, SOOOO mismanaged! Ive had to show out once (or twice) but luckily this is Lil Mo’s last season playing baseball there
Leggs
May 4th, 2011
5:09 pm
SexyC ~ my mind immediately went to the gutter with your Jack Sprat!
abc
May 4th, 2011
5:12 pm
See, I don’t think that the whole of Islam will become enraged by bin Laden’s death, and if confronted with proof of it — no matter how questionable that proof might be. There are, in fact, fake photos of a seriously messed up body claiming to be that of bin Laden. Nobody rioted.
I don’t think that Al Qaeda will retaliate — I don’t think they have the resources. Their leadership is seriously laying low and hiding out at this point, inspired by this story to fear a team of SEALS appearing in the night. Asserting things like that is propaganda. The talking heads on TV are loving it, I’m sure, but I can’t stand to watch those clowns.
An example of American propaganda was, for me, being the in first American military unit in Moscow since WW II. That was back in the 90’s. We’d all been told how the Soviets were an evil empire that could destroy us if we weren’t diligent. They’re not; they’re a very depressed people living in extreme poverty in a 3rd world country. Think about it: Afghanistan kicked their azzes in the 80’s, the Russians gave up and went home. All we had to do to help the Afghanis back then was give them rocket launchers and anti-tank weapons. They did the rest themselves. We put large American military unit stickers on all the Russian army vehicles we saw while in Moscow, and the Russians thought it was funny. They were draftees, mostly interested in getting out and going home.
You know, all the Afghanis that we supplied with weapons against the Russians, they’re the Taliban these days. Didn’t work out so great, did it? American foreign policy, gotta love it.
Celisea
May 4th, 2011
5:15 pm
You have to pass a spelling and grammer test…
and
if you talking about shining someones PETER at work…Oh, no sir..I don’t gets down like that AT ALL.
Sassy what about not at work? lol
and
I know SPED ain’t trying to go off….
and
OMG…somebody just said, SKREETZ. I know what streets is but is SKREETZ. LOL
and
For some reason Simple the word SPED comes to mind when reading her. It probably is a regular but oh well….
and
Time for me to ride out!! The roads is calling.
and
Leggs – somebody probably already said it but I think our S lady would make a great date for your IS guy. You should hook it up.
and
Sassy, same thought. The singular guy and the plural woman
Ooooh my….alrighty then.
abc
May 4th, 2011
5:27 pm
Yall want levity, though. Okay: there’s a new drink out, called ‘The Usama’. It’s 2 shots and a splash.
The Reanimated Corpse of Swiss (now with titanium-infused bionic w@ng)
May 4th, 2011
5:38 pm
abc
May 4th, 2011
5:40 pm
Talk Abbottabad place to hide out.
abc
May 4th, 2011
5:42 pm
Trump insists on seeing bin Laden’s death certificate. Badump-ump, rim shot!