Topic: Self-protect from love?
Fade2Black's photo
Sun 02/17/08 03:53 PM
And yet the experiences are EXACTLY what keep some people from playing the game of love again ...

:tongue:

Totage's photo
Sun 02/17/08 03:58 PM


If someone is able to find the door, I may let them in.



well .. THAT'S a start drinker


Yeah, but it's a doggy door. ohwell :tongue:

Fade2Black's photo
Sun 02/17/08 04:07 PM
well then you'd have to have a DAWG interested in you eh?


laugh laugh laugh

beccalee1980's photo
Sun 02/17/08 04:35 PM
fade, you are absolutely right and the more i open myself up to Enrique (my boyfriend) the more joy i feel..i tell him all the time that he makes me happier than i have ever been...
Beccaflowerforyou

Fade2Black's photo
Sun 02/17/08 04:56 PM

fade, you are absolutely right and the more i open myself up to Enrique (my boyfriend) the more joy i feel..i tell him all the time that he makes me happier than i have ever been...
Beccaflowerforyou



awww that's great news Becca .. I take it you posted to "DO YOU BELIEVE IN MAGIC?" thread

beccalee1980's photo
Sun 02/17/08 05:28 PM
not yet i haven't..i guess i need to :)
Becca

tomie's photo
Sun 02/17/08 06:09 PM
I don't self protect and perhaps I should. Rejection is hard to take but I have grown tuff skin on here.:tongue: I've learned we grow out of our hurts. When we are happy and content, there is no growth. So, if I fall in love and get hurt, I try to learn from it but will always be vulnerable falling in love. Just those few precious moments makes up for all the other hurts.
T:tongue: mie

Fade2Black's photo
Sun 02/17/08 07:08 PM
yep so true .. no pain no gain .. even in matters of the heart

nazland's photo
Sun 02/17/08 08:47 PM

This is a perfect topic for me. Yes I do. Ive had this conversation with many friends recently, because people take interest in me and I ward them off or avoid them. Happened last night actually, I was all ready to try to let the wall down for what I thought was a great guy. Then he "disclosed" that he has a wife at home. Good thing I didnt let that wall down.
keep your head up not all guyz are pigs

Fade2Black's photo
Mon 02/18/08 05:57 AM


This is a perfect topic for me. Yes I do. Ive had this conversation with many friends recently, because people take interest in me and I ward them off or avoid them. Happened last night actually, I was all ready to try to let the wall down for what I thought was a great guy. Then he "disclosed" that he has a wife at home. Good thing I didnt let that wall down.
keep your head up not all guyz are pigs



Exactly. drinker

You know the saying .. you have to kiss a lot of toads to find your Prince love

no photo
Mon 02/18/08 09:12 AM
I've been "self-protecting" on and off for the past 9 years. It is hard to trust again.

I can understand the need to surrender to it, to experience fully.

Unfortunately, I also remember only too well the pain of betrayal and abandonment, loss.

I teeter back and forth these days. Do I dive in completely? Or do my toes just skim the water and wait.

Opportunities for beauty can be lost in the waiting, I agree.

Fade2Black's photo
Mon 02/18/08 05:45 PM
Here's the thing Angel. Time waits for no one. I say jump in but protect your heart from drowning by a life jacket eh?

glasses

no photo
Mon 02/18/08 07:57 PM

Here's the thing Angel. Time waits for no one. I say jump in but protect your heart from drowning by a life jacket eh?

glasses

What am I gonna use for a life jacket?! :wink:

I tend to give my all. ....Have to learn to reserve a bit without compromising what I have to offer - the best of what makes me, me. ohwell

Totage's photo
Mon 02/18/08 08:10 PM

well then you'd have to have a DAWG interested in you eh?


laugh laugh laugh


laugh
I'd prefer a cat, or squirrel maybe.

or maybe a goat or llamanoway

Fade2Black's photo
Tue 02/19/08 07:02 AM


Here's the thing Angel. Time waits for no one. I say jump in but protect your heart from drowning by a life jacket eh?

glasses

What am I gonna use for a life jacket?! :wink:

I tend to give my all. ....Have to learn to reserve a bit without compromising what I have to offer - the best of what makes me, me. ohwell


When I get the life jacket thing worked out I'll buzz ya laugh and ya, I tend to give my all too ... *sigh*

sweetjeep's photo
Tue 02/19/08 08:40 AM

I've been "self-protecting" on and off for the past 9 years. It is hard to trust again.

I can understand the need to surrender to it, to experience fully.

Unfortunately, I also remember only too well the pain of betrayal and abandonment, loss.

I teeter back and forth these days. Do I dive in completely? Or do my toes just skim the water and wait.

Opportunities for beauty can be lost in the waiting, I agree.

I completely agree with this and yet I have a 10 ft high, 4ft wide wall of bricks around me...I poke my head and and then run for cover. Its a scary place out there in love land!brokenheart

Myisland50's photo
Tue 02/19/08 08:52 AM
"You have to feel the pain to get to the joy"flowerforyou

I think, each expereince we have in this mere mortal world is a lesson. Some are painful, but love is the joy,,a "gift". How silly it would be to build walls around avoidance of that gift.

I mean, after all,,who would you be hurting?huh

no photo
Tue 02/19/08 08:58 AM



If someone is able to find the door, I may let them in.



well .. THAT'S a start drinker


Yeah, but it's a doggy door. ohwell :tongue:



laugh

Fade2Black's photo
Tue 02/19/08 09:41 AM

"You have to feel the pain to get to the joy"flowerforyou

I think, each expereince we have in this mere mortal world is a lesson. Some are painful, but love is the joy,,a "gift". How silly it would be to build walls around avoidance of that gift.

I mean, after all,,who would you be hurting?huh



only yourself little missy :tongue:

Myisland50's photo
Tue 02/19/08 09:42 AM


"You have to feel the pain to get to the joy"flowerforyou

I think, each expereince we have in this mere mortal world is a lesson. Some are painful, but love is the joy,,a "gift". How silly it would be to build walls around avoidance of that gift.

I mean, after all,,who would you be hurting?huh



only yourself little missy :tongue:


your such a SMART woman Fade:wink: smooched flowerforyou happy bigsmile