How can I tell my girlfriend she is fat?
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Attraction is personal. Sly might find overweight girls to be more attractive than thin or healthy weight range girls.
But your point about codependence on a partner for happiness is a good one.
Yeah, I used to think the same way. I thought I needed a girlfriend to be happy. Than I learned two things. I learned that I can be unhappy with a girlfriend and I learned that I can be happy with or without one.
My thinking was messed up before but there was a positive outcome. The improvements I made in my life such as weight loss and a higher paying job were originally intended to make more attractive to girls yet they ended up being there own rewards.
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Attraction is personal. Sly might find overweight girls to be more attractive than thin or healthy weight range girls.
But your point about codependence on a partner for happiness is a good one.
Yeah, I used to think the same way. I thought I needed a girlfriend to be happy. Than I learned two things. I learned that I can be unhappy with a girlfriend and I learned that I can be happy with or without one.
My thinking was messed up before but there was a positive outcome. The improvements I made in my life such as weight loss and a higher paying job were originally intended to make more attractive to girls yet they ended up being there own rewards.
I'm glad to read this! Learning, changing, growing, progressing, improving.. so, SO, much better than dwelling on the same negative thought patterns that would have continued to get you what you didn't want.
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Attraction is personal. Sly might find overweight girls to be more attractive than thin or healthy weight range girls.
But your point about codependence on a partner for happiness is a good one.
Yeah, I used to think the same way. I thought I needed a girlfriend to be happy. Than I learned two things. I learned that I can be unhappy with a girlfriend and I learned that I can be happy with or without one.
My thinking was messed up before but there was a positive outcome. The improvements I made in my life such as weight loss and a higher paying job were originally intended to make more attractive to girls yet they ended up being there own rewards.
Says the guy with a gf. Let’s talk again after she leaves you. You went back to your old ways when the last left you. You’re now one of the haves, and so you opinions are void when it comes to have nots like myself. Sadly every single guy who gets a gf then thinks they’d be happy without easy said when they don’t have to be in that situation. Same as a rich person saying they’d be find poor. Sure they would.
Attraction is personal. Sly might find overweight girls to be more attractive than thin or healthy weight range girls.
But your point about codependence on a partner for happiness is a good one.
Yeah, I used to think the same way. I thought I needed a girlfriend to be happy. Than I learned two things. I learned that I can be unhappy with a girlfriend and I learned that I can be happy with or without one.
My thinking was messed up before but there was a positive outcome. The improvements I made in my life such as weight loss and a higher paying job were originally intended to make more attractive to girls yet they ended up being there own rewards.
I'm glad to read this! Learning, changing, growing, progressing, improving.. so, SO, much better than dwelling on the same negative thought patterns that would have continued to get you what you didn't want.
He’s only of this thought while he has a gf, she’s bringing him happiness. If she leaves him he’ll be sad. Happen with last girl he dated. Someone’s who happy alone doesn’t jump from girl to girl getting depressed in between.
Anyways back to ignoring your posts.
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Attraction is personal. Sly might find overweight girls to be more attractive than thin or healthy weight range girls.
But your point about codependence on a partner for happiness is a good one.
Yeah, I used to think the same way. I thought I needed a girlfriend to be happy. Than I learned two things. I learned that I can be unhappy with a girlfriend and I learned that I can be happy with or without one.
My thinking was messed up before but there was a positive outcome. The improvements I made in my life such as weight loss and a higher paying job were originally intended to make more attractive to girls yet they ended up being there own rewards.
Says the guy with a gf. Let’s talk again after she leaves you. You went back to your old ways when the last left you. You’re now one of the haves, and so you opinions are void when it comes to have nots like myself. Sadly every single guy who gets a gf then thinks they’d be happy without easy said when they don’t have to be in that situation. Same as a rich person saying they’d be find poor. Sure they would.
Who are you to tell Retro he's a liar? That he genuinely didn't learn that he can be happy in, or out of, a relationship?
Fact of the matter is that there are plenty of people who are happy even though they're not in a relationship. I am one of them.
People who insist that only a partner can make them experience happiness are codependent on someone else for their own happiness and that's unhealthy. In time maybe you'll learn that it is in fact true that happiness comes from within, from one's own thoughts and emotions. It's not something that happens magically once they're in a relationship.
As for rich people being fine poor, why not? I know plenty of rich people (Millionaires) who started out poor & became wealthy. They weren't miserable up until they had Millions of dollars and then a switch flipped and made them happy when they had money. Sure, they're less stressed about being able to afford the basic necessities of life anymore, but they were always happy people & they know that if their fortunes evaporated they'd still be themselves: happy. How is this difficult to understand and accept? It seems more of a divide between unhappy & happy people vs. between rich & poor. Happy people are going to be happy regardless of monetary wealth or not. I've been unhappy with debt or money in my account, too. I'm a pretty happy person in general these days & if the money and investments I have disappeared overnight, sure, that would suck, but I'd still be me going about my life with about the same happiness I do now.. because it's not dollars in my account that make me happy. It's my thoughts & emotions, my reactions to them and life all around me. The more money I accumulate over time doesn't make me happier. I still enjoy the same activities, places, and people in my life. Money can't buy happiness.. time spent at the beach with amazing people on the other hand - that makes me happy, and I can do that for (almost) free so there's no sense in spending $ to pursue happiness. That's how people accumulate wealth, too. They don't attach their happiness to spending money or obtaining material things, so even at my very meagre income I've been able to accumulate multiple 5 figures in my accounts. It'll continue to grow, too, and I won't be any less happy for not spending much of it along the way.
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Attraction is personal. Sly might find overweight girls to be more attractive than thin or healthy weight range girls.
But your point about codependence on a partner for happiness is a good one.
Yeah, I used to think the same way. I thought I needed a girlfriend to be happy. Than I learned two things. I learned that I can be unhappy with a girlfriend and I learned that I can be happy with or without one.
My thinking was messed up before but there was a positive outcome. The improvements I made in my life such as weight loss and a higher paying job were originally intended to make more attractive to girls yet they ended up being there own rewards.
I'm glad to read this! Learning, changing, growing, progressing, improving.. so, SO, much better than dwelling on the same negative thought patterns that would have continued to get you what you didn't want.
He’s only of this thought while he has a gf, she’s bringing him happiness. If she leaves him he’ll be sad. Happen with last girl he dated. Someone’s who happy alone doesn’t jump from girl to girl getting depressed in between.
Anyways back to ignoring your posts.
He just said otherwise. Who are you to call him a liar?
Also, it's normal for people to experience sadness after a breakup. Even happy people have unhappy times.
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She didn't say a guy that earns enough money to buy a $3.5M house now. She said an older guy who owns a house that's worth $3.5M now, and that he likely bought it decades ago for $30K.
This is very common here, too. I get the whole bit about the elderly who can't even afford to pay their property taxes yet live in what is now a multimillion dollar home. Heck, I'm posting from the house in the suburbs where I rent from family. It's worth a bit more than $1M now. My father, a drywaller (regular blue collar construction worker) bought his first house about 1984 for $89K, sold it approx 10 years ago for ~$450K (to my older brother, which was a deal) and bought this one brand new for $450K (another cheap deal, it was the lowest price paid in the entire development). That's out in the somewhat undesirable suburbs. Other areas of town have appreciated far, FAR, more. It's how we have $60M mansions. Now new prices are in the stratosphere.. one new condo building coming up will average $5.5M per unit, the most expensive in the city to date at $3000/sf. But yeah, a lot of regular people who are relatively cash poor now live in houses worth more than $1M & there are many semi-retired people who's property's appreciated far more, so it's not a stretch to find some older guy with a $3.5M home if he bought into the market years ago.
Thankyou it’s sounds so crazy to me so I can understand how it appears as I am a gold digger but really want someone old so they will spend time with me sob.
Cat23, in other term, you want a Sugar Daddy and you want to be an old Man's Sugar Baby.
All men will think that of you here even if they won't say it to your face - when we talk in PMs about you, men will surely label you as a Sugar Baby.
You pass the duck test for that.
Ok fair enough, so if I get stupid stupid rich to add to my stupid social skills will I be still seen as a sugar baby? If I have say double his money?
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Attraction is personal. Sly might find overweight girls to be more attractive than thin or healthy weight range girls.
But your point about codependence on a partner for happiness is a good one.
Yeah, I used to think the same way. I thought I needed a girlfriend to be happy. Than I learned two things. I learned that I can be unhappy with a girlfriend and I learned that I can be happy with or without one.
My thinking was messed up before but there was a positive outcome. The improvements I made in my life such as weight loss and a higher paying job were originally intended to make more attractive to girls yet they ended up being there own rewards.
I'm glad to read this! Learning, changing, growing, progressing, improving.. so, SO, much better than dwelling on the same negative thought patterns that would have continued to get you what you didn't want.
He’s only of this thought while he has a gf, she’s bringing him happiness. If she leaves him he’ll be sad. Happen with last girl he dated. Someone’s who happy alone doesn’t jump from girl to girl getting depressed in between.
Anyways back to ignoring your posts.
Not just her. I also get happiness from self-improvement such as my career and weight loss. I get happiness from my achievements.
Sure my career brings money in but I get more happiness from knowing I have the skills to earn it than from the money itself. If I won the lottery tomorrow that would bring me less joy than I would gain from making the same quantity of money under my own power.
My girlfriend can't make me happy, only I can do that. My goal is to myself happy within the context of our relationship. Even with her as my companion I'm still responsible for my own happiness just as she's responsible for her own happiness. I'm sure she wouldn't be impressed if I told her I'm depending on her to make me happy.
True and not only after a breakup. While I'm working being more satisfied with myself, that doesn't mean that I'll be happy every moment of every day. No one is.
I think Sly needs to learn that happiness is the result of a single event like getting a girlfriend but the ongoing product of continuous effort, both inside and outside yourself. Happiness isn't a noun, it's a verb. It's something you do.
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Mmhmm. In other words, "It's about the journey, not the destination." It's about the process, not some end result. If you value & enjoy every moment you can in the steps along the way, you'll be a heck of a lot happier more often than if you're only happy IF you achieve your end goal. That's why there is no end goal of many things for many people - only better, or more, or continuous.. like for example, I do the at least x# of pushups every day. There is no number I'm trying to complete in total and then stop. I just keep doing them every day and bit by bit I keep getting stronger. I must have done more than 200,000 since I started, but now that it's so routine is just a thing I do that I may always do.. and I enjoy doing it. Same goes for building monetary wealth. Sure, I'll have my ups and downs, but bit by bit I'll accumulate more money. There is no specific savings or investment asset goal by x date to reach - only more & better than I've managed so far as the years go on. The amount of money I accumulate by retirement doesn't matter thaaaaat much as I enjoy the hard work to earn an income, savings, discipline, decision making, investing etc along the way. Because doing those things makes me happy, I'm waaaaay happier than if I was miserable doing all those things and set in my mind that I could ONLY become happy once I had become a Millionaire. Why put myself in such a mental rut that might end up being lifelong when I can decide there is no specific number of dollars that can make me happy, but rather the process of earning & making it instead?
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She didn't say a guy that earns enough money to buy a $3.5M house now. She said an older guy who owns a house that's worth $3.5M now, and that he likely bought it decades ago for $30K.
This is very common here, too. I get the whole bit about the elderly who can't even afford to pay their property taxes yet live in what is now a multimillion dollar home. Heck, I'm posting from the house in the suburbs where I rent from family. It's worth a bit more than $1M now. My father, a drywaller (regular blue collar construction worker) bought his first house about 1984 for $89K, sold it approx 10 years ago for ~$450K (to my older brother, which was a deal) and bought this one brand new for $450K (another cheap deal, it was the lowest price paid in the entire development). That's out in the somewhat undesirable suburbs. Other areas of town have appreciated far, FAR, more. It's how we have $60M mansions. Now new prices are in the stratosphere.. one new condo building coming up will average $5.5M per unit, the most expensive in the city to date at $3000/sf. But yeah, a lot of regular people who are relatively cash poor now live in houses worth more than $1M & there are many semi-retired people who's property's appreciated far more, so it's not a stretch to find some older guy with a $3.5M home if he bought into the market years ago.
Thankyou it’s sounds so crazy to me so I can understand how it appears as I am a gold digger but really want someone old so they will spend time with me sob.
Cat23, in other term, you want a Sugar Daddy and you want to be an old Man's Sugar Baby.
All men will think that of you here even if they won't say it to your face - when we talk in PMs about you, men will surely label you as a Sugar Baby.
You pass the duck test for that.
Ok fair enough, so if I get stupid stupid rich to add to my stupid social skills will I be still seen as a sugar baby? If I have say double his money?
Will you ever be able to buy a 3.5M house by yourself? I doubt that.
Look, I seriously believe that men should speak up against gold diggers, men should collectively shame gold digging attitudes in women the same way how women collectively shame shallowness in men, otherwise gold digging would become a socially acceptable behavior.
And it's against our interest to make it socially acceptable.
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Cat, I digged for you an old long post I wrote, hopefully it will you guide well:
Like how women usually collectively hate men who are sex-seeker and players , we men - in the manosphere, - when we are in a room only men talking without any female presence, and when men talk about women (without female presence again): there's nothing more commonly and collectively hated and despised than the gold-diggers.
And yes, all men - of all sizes, old and young, education levels and classes - no exception. And the ones who would willingly go for such women usually view them as sex-to-money kind of exchange deal.
And there are plenty types of them, the obvious ones, the subtle ones and the ones who claim to be 'pragmatic' but in fact money is more important to them than love.
The older we get, the better we develop skills to recognize them all, and we can smell them by miles.
And like the women who often warn each other about players and sex maniacs, we men also often warn each other from money seekers and gold diggers ie. "hey, don't waste your time with that gal, she is only after money + <little story about a short encounter with her>". This is extremely common.
And men - probably for a good reason and due to cumulative dating experiences - are so quickly judgmental about that and quickly would put a woman in the "gold digger zone" for the slightest sign or vibe of it - in a merciless way. At times unfairly.
For instance if a girl in office talked so excitedly about her weekend date's expensive car - you would see guys subtly rolling eyes to each other, and I can guarantee you that 99% of them would goldigger-zone her for good - and everyone(males) would avoid dating her, at least seriously, like a plague.
Or even if she complains about her bf's low salary, or some WOW reaction to some guy driving expensive car....etc.....any slight sign..... *puff* goldigger zoned, instantly.
I recall an incident, where a newly hired colleague in my previous work office kept talking like for an hour excitedly about her boyfriend's senior engineer position and his parent's big house - and once she left the room , my male colleague was like 'she is a nice girl, but too bad she loves money too much' - and that came from a guy who is a son of a rich famous surgeon; the other guys agreed.
And most men keep constantly vigilant and checking for any gold-digging signs from a woman they're dating, even frequently - my best friend, who was also my coworker, told me how he first kept dropping hints and subtle questions to his gf back then (who's his wife now) like "I am still building my future, and we may live in a tiny house and not in perfect condition, would you accept this" - and watched for her reactions - he watched her reaction when he first picked up with his poorly-condition car too, and he told me that she was unlike all the other girls he dated before and that's why he married her.
In fact, when my previous workplace went bankrupt , she stayed sticked with him for 6 months while he's jobless, despite that she just works as a junior kindergarten teacher, so she doesn't make much. On the other hand, two seniors got divorced just after few month of the bankrupt - despite their wives worked in good positions elsewhere. And yes, it was because of money.
That just to tell you, why we (men) are usually paranoid about this - and I was used to think that these men exaggerate but after getting some dating experience after the age of 30.... hell no, it's not something uncommon, it's not uncommon at all. I understand now why most men are so paranoid about this...."social disease".
And yes, most would label the OP as gold-digger too.
So if you're single and seeking and don't want to be viewed as one, be very careful what you talk about when it comes to money.
PS: I have seen the same phenomena among men in Turkey, and Czech Republic (and among male colleagues there who are of different nationalities: Brits, Italians, Czechs...etc) and - so it's not only limited within some culture.
/ The most non-PC post on WP ever. But this is a reality.
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Yep. It has to be about the journey or else I'd waste half of my life being unhappy.
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Vegan calories make you gain weight the same way non-vegan do...
But maybe she would start to look into what she eats. And how many. That would help.
Her decision may indicate she indeed already knows well enough.
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