Posted by sunny10 on November 8, 2004, at 12:08:11
In reply to Sharks, posted by Susan47 on November 7, 2004, at 22:10:34
Your friends sound like a lifesaver- literally.
I wish I HAD friends left... My past sharks have chased them all away. There are only two left- one who is always too busy and the other lives three states away.
Neither of them is ready wth harpoons, unfortunately.
Yes, those men are out there with abundance. You can't learn shark-radar. You can only make yourself less vulnerable to them. It has the added advantage of making YOU less desirable, too. If they don't think they can manipulate you, they don't want you- they'll choose someone with thinner skin.
That said, I, too am trying to be "thicker-skinned". I am convinced that the key lies in my subconscious. We all,consciously, know our pasts, or our diagnoses, et cetera. The big question is how to eradicate the vulnerability. To eradicate whatever it is in our subconscious "personalities formed in our childhoods" that lead us to become sharkbait.
If I learn anything new, I'll get back to you.
-sunny10
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