The addicts playbook....
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Originally Posted by lost0311 
I think I'm gonna be sick. I have of course heard about 90% of these. The bad part is I actually believed 50% of them. Not thinking one had anything to do with the other. Bahaha. I must have SUCKER written on my forhead. I mean how can one person be so gullable. Oh Freedom how I fear thee.
I wasn't gullible at all.I knew every word was a lie
from day 1.But I pretended to believe hoping that she
would wake up one day and realize that she had exchanged
a wonderful life and family----for a life that ,to put it
charitably,made hell look like Club Med.
She burned all her bridges,and even her husband of
20 years told her to stop calling the family home---- in the
cruelest language possible.
The one thing I never felt was anger.Just the aching
sadness you feel seeing a dog weaving in and out of traffic
on an 8 lane freeway. It is near suicide for you to try and
'save' it(You have REAL responsibilities to your REAL family
and sacrificing your family to save a stray dog is just
stupid).
You know how it ends......but it hurts like hell
anyway, watching them throw everything away----
for nothing.
Theirs is the 'freedom' of the lost dog wandering
on the superhighway.
The only choice we Codie's have.....is if there will
be one fatality on that roadway.....
Or two.
Getting there!!
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oh Vale, you just triggered an old and sad memory.
I was driving south on 128 and there was a puppy trying to cross. I swirved and hit the guard rail. I have no idea what happened to that little puppy!
But my car's left side got smashed up trying not to hit him!
Great analogy though. I guess I never learned over the years how to avoid swerving and crashing!!
I was driving south on 128 and there was a puppy trying to cross. I swirved and hit the guard rail. I have no idea what happened to that little puppy!
But my car's left side got smashed up trying not to hit him! Great analogy though. I guess I never learned over the years how to avoid swerving and crashing!!
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Originally Posted by LoveMeNot
oh Vale, you just triggered an old and sad memory.
I was driving south on 128 and there was a puppy trying to cross. I swirved and hit the guard rail. I have no idea what happened to that little puppy! But my car's left side got smashed up trying not to hit him!
Great analogy though. I guess I never learned over the years how to avoid swerving and crashing!!
I was driving south on 128 and there was a puppy trying to cross. I swirved and hit the guard rail. I have no idea what happened to that little puppy!
But my car's left side got smashed up trying not to hit him! Great analogy though. I guess I never learned over the years how to avoid swerving and crashing!!
I had a similar one.Jogging near Hanscom field,a chihuahua started following
me.I told him to get lost but he kept on following me.After awhile I kinda
enjoyed the company,and there was no mistaking the joy in his stride
"I've got a friend! I've got a friend!!".
Well you know what happened next.Car.Thwap!! Car hesitated just a
moment---long enough to identify it was a dog---then sped off,as it seemed
likely I was the owner(and they had no appetite for an altercation).
I held him in my lap as he died,obviously in great pain,shuddering.
Stroking him & telling him it was going to be alright.
I debated getting him to a vet but decided with the rate of blood loss
it wouldn't be long.It wasn't.Put him in a safe spot,went home,cleaned up,
got a bucket,went back.Took him home to his family---who were obviously
devastated.
That being said,I counsel my kids not to lose control of the vehicle if an
animal crosses their path.The die is cast,a fatality near certain.The only
choice is will it be one or many.
Attrition is a fact of life.You can't save everyone.It is folly to try.
Probably more analogies to addiction in there than you can shake a
stick at,but everything isn't a lesson.
Some things are just sad.
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"Do you have picture proof that I did it because if not you can't be sure of anything" Literally that what he said to me. And then he said the girl that told me he was using with this scumbag was a *insert vulgar term here* who was trying to break up our relationship.
"I just spent my money on stupid stuff, life is expensive you know"
"I just spent my money on stupid stuff, life is expensive you know"
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:rotfxko
OMG! when i was pregnant with my son (2 now) AH told me he had SWINE FLU. I had to go stay at my moms with our daughter (cuz getting it could kill me and baby) for over a week so he could *fill in obsene amount of DOC* spend all of our money. Then told me it was on food and gas! if you had the f***ing flu you wouldn't need food or gas to go anywhere.
OMG! when i was pregnant with my son (2 now) AH told me he had SWINE FLU. I had to go stay at my moms with our daughter (cuz getting it could kill me and baby) for over a week so he could *fill in obsene amount of DOC* spend all of our money. Then told me it was on food and gas! if you had the f***ing flu you wouldn't need food or gas to go anywhere.
Getting there!!
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Originally Posted by lost0311
:rotfxko
OMG! when i was pregnant with my son (2 now) AH told me he had SWINE FLU. I had to go stay at my moms with our daughter (cuz getting it could kill me and baby) for over a week so he could *fill in obsene amount of DOC* spend all of our money. Then told me it was on food and gas! if you had the f***ing flu you wouldn't need food or gas to go anywhere.
OMG! when i was pregnant with my son (2 now) AH told me he had SWINE FLU. I had to go stay at my moms with our daughter (cuz getting it could kill me and baby) for over a week so he could *fill in obsene amount of DOC* spend all of our money. Then told me it was on food and gas! if you had the f***ing flu you wouldn't need food or gas to go anywhere.
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Originally Posted by lost0311
:rotfxkoLOL!!!!! I didn't think about that, it must have been toilet paper. He just forgot cuz he was so delirious from the malnutrition of a full week with the flu. bahahaha
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..What a hoot!
What is REALLY needed is a device to convert addict-generated
BS into useable energy! We could sell shares in SR and ALL BE RICH!
--at least a h*ll of a lot better than facebook stock
--
Sure,there are technical details to work out....how to convert worry,
disappearances,lies,theft,arrests, & hard time into saleable energy---
but would anyone here DARE suggest that there is ANY limit to the
net negative energy produced by addiction?!?
Lest any of you try to "claim jump" me.....I already have a working
prototype in my garage.Like I said,I am still working the bugs out....first
run did not go well....
(I had to use a DeLorean!)
...First my wallet disappeared,then all the minutes were sucked out of my
iPhone.Then the NAV system locked on to every pawn shop & bail bondsman
in a 50km radius and would not reset.
I'm sure the idea is a sound one,and won't give up----that's what they
teach us in 'codie 101.But then a little knowledge can be a dangerous thing....
(..... MAYBE I should have followed up with a graduate course? Like 'cutting your losses 501' !?!)
What is REALLY needed is a device to convert addict-generated
BS into useable energy! We could sell shares in SR and ALL BE RICH!
--at least a h*ll of a lot better than facebook stock
--Sure,there are technical details to work out....how to convert worry,
disappearances,lies,theft,arrests, & hard time into saleable energy---
but would anyone here DARE suggest that there is ANY limit to the
net negative energy produced by addiction?!?
Lest any of you try to "claim jump" me.....I already have a working
prototype in my garage.Like I said,I am still working the bugs out....first
run did not go well....
(I had to use a DeLorean!)
...First my wallet disappeared,then all the minutes were sucked out of my
iPhone.Then the NAV system locked on to every pawn shop & bail bondsman
in a 50km radius and would not reset.
I'm sure the idea is a sound one,and won't give up----that's what they
teach us in 'codie 101.But then a little knowledge can be a dangerous thing....
(..... MAYBE I should have followed up with a graduate course? Like 'cutting your losses 501' !?!)
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Latest line from H (who recently crashed his car and 3 people are critically injured)....
"I am thinking about rehab but think things are under control now.... I am not using cocaine, really I am not.... just drinking too much... but that's because I am under so much pressure... everyone is putting me under so much pressure... no-one knows what I am going through..."
"I will never drive a Landcruiser again - just got my new car.. a Mercedes 4x4"
Nothing more to say!!!! DENIAL, DENIAL, DENIAL
"I am thinking about rehab but think things are under control now.... I am not using cocaine, really I am not.... just drinking too much... but that's because I am under so much pressure... everyone is putting me under so much pressure... no-one knows what I am going through..."
"I will never drive a Landcruiser again - just got my new car.. a Mercedes 4x4"
Nothing more to say!!!! DENIAL, DENIAL, DENIAL
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Originally Posted by Supersarah
I'm sorry, I didn't mean it, I do respect you and I don't think you're a horrible person (usually sent via text message)
I'm so sorry for everything I've done, I feel so bad about what I've put you through (also via text and when he wants something to go his way.
S xx
SS, my late AH (he passed away last week and we were separated at the time) sent me this last "nice" text at the end of June:
"I just want you to know that I hold no disscontent towards you. I'm sorry things turned out the way they did. It was never my intention to hurt you. I hope that we can remain friends. I am still adjusting to life without you. I do hope you will forgive me...I forgive myself and just hope the best for you"
I was mad when I read it because I thought there was a motive behind it - and didn't respond
--- I have been going thru major pain and guilt over this because now he's dead, the message seems way less insiduous.Sigh. I don't doubt some of the words as genuine, but your example above is too close to home to not realize it was also the addict talking.
How unbelievably sad...
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Originally Posted by Lara
Latest line from H (who recently crashed his car and 3 people are critically injured)....
"I am thinking about rehab but think things are under control now.... I am not using cocaine, really I am not.... just drinking too much... but that's because I am under so much pressure... everyone is putting me under so much pressure... no-one knows what I am going through..."
"I will never drive a Landcruiser again - just got my new car.. a Mercedes 4x4"
Nothing more to say!!!! DENIAL, DENIAL, DENIAL
"I am thinking about rehab but think things are under control now.... I am not using cocaine, really I am not.... just drinking too much... but that's because I am under so much pressure... everyone is putting me under so much pressure... no-one knows what I am going through..."
"I will never drive a Landcruiser again - just got my new car.. a Mercedes 4x4"
Nothing more to say!!!! DENIAL, DENIAL, DENIAL
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