Nora--Negative or Positive, Facts are FACTS, whether we like it or not

Submitted by Straight_Talk_Luigi (United States), Dec 15, 2008 at 01:49

Nora:

The reason why my responses to all the hit-and-run posters who come on here and state "I've know my (insert religion/ethnic group here) man for X and/or we've been together for Y and not all of them are bad." are the same is very simple:

People who need to come on the internet and defend something---their relationships, their viewpoints or whatever, CLEARLY have some sort of issue in their social lives.

It is a behavioral pattern that I have seen time after time after from here to topix to myspace to yahoo to facebook to MSN to youtube, you name it, it's all there.

Couples who are in stable, healthy relationships do NOT need to come onto the internet to check out other's experiences, give advice, and most certainly not defend their relationships.

Being on-line a lot says quite a bit in most cases about a person, and it's usually not good.

Ever notice, Nora, how Moroccan or Turkish or Egyptian couples are not on here defending their customs and their religion? Ever notice how it's Western women like yourself who are actually in these relationships that umph! just cannot resist the urge to come on here and show Luigi the love in their lives and how wondrous it is instead of well, you know, actually enjoying it in reality?

Here's some more food for thought: I would even bet real money that at least some of the women who come on here do so as a distraction from something else, oh, like checking up on their man, or wondering he's on-line and not talking to them? Perhaps, even some of the posters who defend their relationships are talking to their man but there are significant gaps in the conversation while he entertains other "clients?"

You see, Nora, when you've been around the block like I have, you start to pick on these kinds of things.

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