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Old Sep 02, 2014, 02:48 PM
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Okay, so I know going into this that some on the forum are probably going to be really upset with me, but I think people do you no favors by blowing smoke up your *** and pretending like you do not have very significant issues in how you interact with others. Although I disagree that you are unlikable immediately, you DO very quickly engage in behaviors that are unpleasant and that drive people away. You are quite hostile when people disagree with you and the emotional volatility is very unpleasant. Your unpredictability makes some people uneasy. A friendship is very difficult to maintain with someone who behaves as you do.


It doesn't HAVE to be just the way you are. It is something you can work on. The biggest favor anyone did for me in the sport I participate in was to tell me that I was acting like a *****. I did not mean to. I was riding a very difficult horse and really focused on just surviving. However, as a result, I was not friendly to the humans around me and replied curtly to them when they tried to engage with me. When someone pointed it out to me, it gave me an opportunity to try to change my behavior.

Telling people you are just "sharp" and to get over it is not an attitude that will attract people or cause them to want to engage with you. If you were happy with your current situation, I could see not wanting to work on this, but you are not. You repeatedly have issues with other people, and post on here quite upset about it, so it seems like this IS something big and important to work on.




Again, this goes back to what I was saying above. You are not happy with your friend situation. You say you are not hostile, but you do come across at least in writing as very hostile, very often.

I am not saying any of this to be mean, but to try to make you more aware of how you come across. While it may be unpleasant to hear that one's behaviors are off-putting to others, or are driving others away, unless you are aware of it or someone tells you about, you don't know that changes are necessary if you want to have your friends not leave you.

So I'm easy to get along with at first and then difficult? Okay.

My friends are more hostile than me. I don't care about the ones that left. They didn't want to put the time into being friends when it involved doing anything easier than just knocking on my door.

I come across very different in real life than I do online. You have no idea what I am like as a friend in real life and you also have no idea that I've only been offended on here once. I defend myself. And I'm just direct about and I don't give a **** waft you think of me. I feel like you falsely think I'm offended. I can standup for myself in a snarky way and enjoy debate without getting offended.