I had a guy like that in my life (LOL....back in the early 70's). He was just a friend from the university I liked to ride horses with....but nothing more because I sensed his want to dominate my life......so I basically "had other things planned" when he wanted to continually do something more often than I wanted to get together with him. LOL...at the end, he asked me to set dates once a month for months in advance so that we could go out to dinner at a fancy restaurant. I finally said that I live my life from moment to moment & I don't plan ahead & I don't want anyone planning my life ahead for me because I need to be FREE to do the things that I seriously want to do by myself.
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But it starts to turn into "and what are you doing tomorrow too".
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I might be tempted to come back with an "I don't know but I'm sure I have something that I have committed my time to tomorrow so I won't be free".......the more insistent they get the more you can change your response to "I don't know but I will plan something just so that I don't have to have time to spend with you"..save that one for if he starts to get obnoxious.
Oh & BTW, I'm glad I had my sense about him because his first wife picked up & left him..vanished without taking anything because she wanted to be free I'm sure....I never knew her to know what experience she really had with him...but his 2nd wife I got to know well along with their son. He actually ended up dying of cancer just before my mother had her cancer surgery. I was pretty much the only person that knew what he was like & I felt for her. She actually opened up to be after his death because we were closer & said that now she was free because he wouldn't even let her out of the house after awhile & she couldn't have any interests of her own

.....I really called that one right..just wish I had been wise enough to listen to myself about my own marriage....LOL.
Don't allow anyone to dominate your time other than yourself