Emotional isolation: alone and/or lonely

[Nic]

Oh CG! You kill me.............pfff ha!
And I loved your reply to our posts..you're in! It's a threesome!...Get the popcorn and let's all settle down and watch this thing..'kay?

One thing though..I get the aisle 'cos I like to cross my legs..sorry usher!

CG..pass the popcorn...NOW!

[Anonymous]

I am ambivalent about socializing with people. Sometimes I want to be around people. But usually I want to be left alone. I hate it when the phone rings. I dread it when people invite me to anything. Still, I don't want to be excluded or rejected. I'm ambivalent. I stopped judging myself on it. I may lose friends who need more contact, but that's okay. We probably aren't compatible.

bunny

[rosencrantz]

Oh good grief - you've all gone bohemian on me!!!  (see earlier posts about bohemian parents!).  Can't cope with this.  Hey, bunny - can I come round your place til it all calms down again???  Ambivalence I can cope with.  Bohemia?  I don't even understand the jokes.  This is all too 'grownup' for me.  Waaa!  I wanna go hoooooome!
R  

PS See, Portia, I told you I woz boring!!!

[Anonymous]

I am ambivalent about socializing with people. Sometimes I want to be around people. But usually I want to be left alone. I hate it when the phone rings. I dread it when people invite me to anything. Still, I don't want to be excluded or rejected. I'm ambivalent. I stopped judging myself on it. I may lose friends who need more contact, but that's okay. We probably aren't compatible.

bunny

bunny, I loved your reponse!   . So, so, so    YOU  I had the funniest thought! You'd be so great to go out with. I'm imaging taking you out for coffee to meet some of my anally retentive friends (not you Nic Obviously,   guffaww, guffaww,  snort, snort).

I'm picturing us sitting out in the morning sun, sidewalk cafe-style. My friend Maria starts winding up to have a good whinge about her husband's most recent affair. And you'd have ben sitting there listening silently, observing everything, saying nothing. Then bang, you'd King Hit with us with one of your succinct, straight to the guts of the matter, completely honest and spot-on questions and observations.

I'd fall of my chair with laughter watching Maria, as she'd be choking to death on the cigarette smoke she swallowed in shock at your frank honesty. Meanwhile, you'd be thinking,    "What? What? What did I say?"

((hug to bunny))

CG

[rosencrantz]

Oh reality checks, reality checks - they are just cr*p checks really, aren't they - just love 'em.   bunny - I just had a new image of you as a very solidly grounded frog sitting placidly but firmly on a lily pad, still and silent, just 'being'.  A fly comes buzzing around.  All is still.  ZAP! The long tongue is out and gone in a flash.  And so has the fly!!!  
R

[bunny]

I'm picturing us sitting out in the morning sun, sidewalk cafe-style. My friend Maria starts winding up to have a good whinge about her husband's most recent affair.

I can't really listen to whingeing. I usually interrupt the person and try to shut them up. But thanks for the nice words and hugs to you, too.

bunny