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Original thread topic: I think age difference is something that may always bother you, considering your experience. It's something you should talk to him about, and he should be more sensitive about.
@sebastian: My opinion, big city/little town thing, is rural area population follow a very singular thought train, and people not like them are rejected. Also, the level of understanding is far less. I think because of more of a lack of diversity, where most rural areas have mostly family living around them. The big city, a little more diversity. I personally get along with people from cities better than rural areas. Although, I do carry few rural traits with me.
@moonlight: I congratulate you on having a relationship with no fighting. I must say, reading it brought on the feeling of that you never argue. While I don't agree with loud, boisterous arguing, fighting in public, or physical arguing, I believe arguing is very important to how we live. Sebastian has put many times the perfect compatability between 2 people is slim to non-existent. I come from the ideal of we have pasts that the other needs to know about. At either rate, argument is the result. Also, I believe if one person always gets what they want, and the other doesn't, then anger and resentment will ensue.
Where I differ is I believe in more constructive arguing, where both sides are more interested in learning each others feelings and thoughts, and working towards compromise. Where I think it goes wrong is where the emotions are triggered through words/events /actions, and one or both people become defensive, then nothing gets across. The usual result being "fighting," loud, physical, sometimes violent behavior that children see in their world is normal. I also think fighting is a subconscious way to get closer to your significant other if you feel they are pulling away.
Having come from a past where my children saw things they shouldn't have, which we've resolved, I tend to follow a different flow. I'll always regret what happened during that time. I'll never feel that what transpired then was justified or acceptable. What our children have seen, and went through is also very hard to accept what happened, but in a way, I feel that it's ultimately helped my children. They've seen, and still remember what happened, they've also witnessed that it wasn't right, and have witnessed the healing process that goes along with it. People are taken back when my children talk to them, because they display a deep thought train, and try to understand others.
Novhi: Age difference is something of a personal thing. If he truly loves you, he's not going to go anywhere, but he will need to know your fears and concerns so he can help you put those to rest. Ultimately, it's a choice of living afraid of the past repeating itself, or living knowing the past may repeat itself, but learning and moving on from it, probably won't.
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