When we last left our heroine, she was knee deep in an epic battle of words against a most confusing adversary...
Him: Yeah...but in my eyes I would've been. Now I know well enough how to assign you to a position in my mind.
Me: Hmm?
Him: Never mind.
Me: No, what do you mean? You don't like, hate me now do you? :(
Him: No. But I know to begin concentrating my intentions on finding other people.
Oh, good! This actually ended pretty normal. Except it wasn't actually over. He stopped IMing me for about an hour, then:
Him: *hum*
Me: Whatcha humming?
Him: Just humming... you didn't respond....waited 50 minutes or so.
What was I supposed to say to that? I was just going to let it go. If he wanted a response, he should have said something. Sooner. :P
Me: Sorry. I didn't really know what to say. :/
Him: Did I offend you?
Me: No, no, I just feel kinda guilty right now.
Him: Guilty? How?
Me: Cuz I've been flirting with you for a while, then my ex pops back into the scene and discombobulates everything.
Him: Hmm..an interesting reaction and summarization.
Me: Interesting? xD I hope that's a good word in this case.
Him: The "interesting" response was matter of fact and emotionless based upon my new incorporation of the new data surrounding your response.
....What? That's an.....interesting way to phrase that.....or anything.
Me: I don't get it. xD
Him: What isn't there to get?
Why you sound like a robot all of a sudden?
Him: In fact, I was fairly sure that I explained my response more than adequately.
Me: I guess I don't get why there's no emotion.
Him: Should there have been emotion?
Me: I suppose so, though, don't ask me what it should have been.
Him: Given the choice, when responding to [your ex], I would expect an emotionless answer to be best.
Me: Why?
Him: What are the possible emotional reactions to that?
Me: idk :/
Him: Then why should I have had emotion? How would you react, emotionally, if you were in my shoes?
Me: I'd probably be hurt, disappointed, a bit sad.
Him: Wouldn't it be better, then, for me to react without emotion, given the choice between no emotion and those others?
No, because you're human, and not Spock. Spock is actually sexy.
Me: Why would it be?
Him: Is it a good thing to feel hurt, disappointed, or sad?
Me: Depends on how you look at it.
Him: How would you look at it?
Me: Responding with no emotion would typically suggest to me that you were never all that interested in me in the first place.
Him: Or, it would indicate my resignation from interfering.
Men. They always think they'd be interfering. Most of the time, guys, if a girl's in love, you couldn't interfere if you tried.
Me: I suppose. Just usually if something can come off two ways, a girl will normally assume the worse of the two.
Him: I'd prefer not to take my emotions out on you.
Me: That's much appreciated, I guess. Just, idk, I don't see a point in hiding mine.
Him: There's a difference between hiding them and not taking them out. You've already inferred for yourself how I am most likely feeling, and I choose not to subject you to me behaving that way.
Um, I'm still sticking with what I said. Showing no emotion whatsoever is not the same as just not taking it out on someone. You CAN show negative emotions without being a jerk to somebody.
Me: It just seems like that would take a lot of extra effort.
Him: Not really...just saves me from embarrassment.
Me: Why would you be embarrassed? :(
Him: Because I would proceed to make a fool out of myself, and perhaps, if provoked by your arguments, would proceed to become very insulting. Because your inference was valid.
Duh. :P
Me: I really am sorry you know. If I had known my ex was gonna come back around I wouldn't have gotten you involved. :(
Him: If I had known your ex would be a consideration, I never would've gotten involved.
Me: I didn't even know it was a consideration.
And this is where it turned ugly.
Him: Rephrase - If I had been aware that your ex could become a consideration, I never would've gotten involved.
Me: Rephrase - I wasn't even aware that my ex could have become a consideration. He just kind of started talking to me again.
Him: ...If you weren't aware that he could become a consideration, how is it that he now is?
Me: It was just a random happening. He started talking to me again, said he wanted to work things out with me and get back together. And THEN it became a consideration. I couldn't have predicted that.
Him: And you were unaware of your ability to either accept or refuse? I could've predicted it. I did predict it.
I thought you just said if you had been aware of it, you wouldn't have gotten involved? Now you knew the whole time?
Him: But given your descriptions of the breakup, it seemed that you wouldn't consider it.
Me: Exactly. I was under the impression he and I were just...over.
Him: My inference, apparently, was incorrect, as it WAS possible for you to consider it. Thus, it has always been a possibility that he could become a consideration.
It has always been a possibility that I'm going to dye my hair purple and get hit by a bus, but that doesn't mean it's LIKELY.
Me: Possible, yes, but that doesn't mean I was aware of that fact.
Him: How could you have possibly been unaware of the fact that it could have become a consideration? The possibility for it to become a consideration has resided soley within yourself.
Me: Yes, and it surprised the hell out of me.
Him: How could it surprise you? I repeat: The possibility for it to become a consideration has resided soley within yourself.
He REALLY loves to reiterate, for the record. He seems to be under the impression that repeating what you already said makes your argument stronger. I also enjoy that he loves trying to sound smart by phrasing things in the most obnoxious way possible, but he's tossing "solely" around misspelled. :P
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