The_Walrus wrote:
Once I told a woman I loved her and she said sorry to me among a load of nice things. I was too caught up in the nice things to really think much about the apology, but it was weird, because from my perspective she hadn't done anything wrong.
Dunno why she said that, unless you declared love, and she let you down nicely with a sorry and compliments (i.e. sorry the love is not reciprocated). But yeah, apologising for not loving someone is a bit weird and probably (I'm guessing) is something women have to do sometimes out of fear of 'something'. My GF disagrees and said it's probably that you were clearly a sweet guy but not for her. I told her I am talking about Walrus here
The_Walrus wrote:
When I started secondary school, I was placed in a class with six other boys from my primary school who I got on well with. Unfortunately, they stopped getting on well with me. I was ostracised, which escalated via name calling to physical bullying. Eventually my parents saw the bruises and phoned the school and it stopped. Relationships repaired over time. These days one of them is one of my closest friends. He got beaten up in 2020 which induced a period of mania and psychosis, and he apologised to me for everything that happened in 2007. It was the first time any of them had actually apologised.
Forgiveness... not sure. Can't really remember.
Kids can be real bastards , secondary school can be a battlefield. Shame it took a beating and a trip to the darkside to make him apologise, the apology was probably always in him, but he needed to mature fully and evaluate his life first. Take it from me you evaluate a lot after psychosis.
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