on the last weekend before Christmas, to which all spouses are specifically not invited and are in fact explicitly excluded? And if you happen to be such a spouse, why exactly would you agree to go?

I could not possibly be more disappointed, offended, or hurt by the entire situation and I seem to be alone in the world in feeling this way.

survive

when they think you don’t trust them.

Then they tell you that they won’t promise you anything and that they will happily betray you first opportunity they get, so you’d better not rely on them. They have no allegiance to you and every allegiance to everyone else in the world. You are on your own and they are not on your side. They tell you this to your face when you ask if you can rely on them.

So why are they shocked if they think you don’t trust them when they say such things every time it comes up?

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Women make decisions entirely in reaction to whatever is happening to them right now. This is why they hurt people all the time. Because they don’t care about consequences, they don’t care about people or feelings that aren’t pressing on them right now, and they are so emotional and impulsive as to destroy anything they have ever claimed to have loved in the heat of one moment.

It is left to we “crazy” men to wonder whether they ever regret it afterward.

They say they do; that’s the story of my life. But I don’t think I know what “regret” is when it comes to women.