mixed signals/waning sex life
Here's the deal. Been dating a girl for almost 4 months. Haven't had sex in 3 weeks. :-/ She fell over me big time in the beginning. (a little clingy/needy) As time goes on, things mellowed down a bit. Her drive to have sex was 24/7 basically. She'd always flirt and act horny around me and talk about it and almost any conversation could end in some innuendo.
So time goes on, she gets the impression from her mom that I'm happy with how things are and I don't want anything to change. (translation: I'm not looking for a future with you) I never said or inferred that (at least in my mind I didn't) so we talked and got it straigtened out and she was happy and glad I had the same outlook and goals relatively that she does.
There's been lots of times she gets emotional and doesn't want to let me go and even cries saying "I feel like this is too good to be true. I don't want it to end and I worry all the time that i'll do something to drive you away like how my mom says I have to be happy around you or you'll get tired of putting up with High school drama and leave because you don't have time for that." or " I worry about what you'll do when you find someone better who comes along."
So she basically tells me that she has low self-esteem and wonders what I see in her. She tells me about always being the 3rd wheel in a group at school and feels good when anyone popular acknowledges her existence. I know this will change in time because when I did the HS bit (1996) I wanted to be liked by popular kids too. But in the real world, it doesn't matter one bit. You make or break yourself and everything starts over everytime you switch school, jobs, careers. And usually, most people don't really give a f'k who you are after school or what your "rep" is.
We had an arguement about that last week and she cried about it. It was basically me saying how when I give her a compliment, (I give her compliments at least once every time I see her but not ALL the time. I know that the more you do, the less impact they have. ) she just shrugs it off, but when some kid at school give her a good one, or a 6 yr old kid she babysits gives her a bad one (called her fat) she gets all emotional. But more often then not when I give her a compliment, she just says "thanks" and smiles but looks as though I told her it was cloudy with 20% humidity. (in other words, a neutral reaction)
When she cried she said that "It's like i'm trying to tell you but it doesn't come out right. It's like when people tell me something good, i'm glad to hear it but I don't think much from it, but when it's from you, I know it's real and it's hard for me to believe that someone can say something so nice to me and ACTUALLY mean it."
There's times she cuts down herself and I almost want to tell her to just shut to F up! I don't mind sarcastically cracking jokes about something silly you did or whatever, but when she insults herself about things that are NORMAL to a typical human being, it pisses me off. "Of course it's ok if you don't have the waistline of Kate Moss. It's fine that you have mixed blood that gives you a unique look. No, you don't look "weird" because you don't look like a straight "white" girl. No, there's nothing wrong with not having giant tits and YES i'm not just saying I like them to make you feel better. And YES, when I tell you something about you that I find beautiful/wonderful, it's because I REALLY do mean it!"
Why don't girls get this? If a guy SAYS something, and his ACTIONS follow suit, then where's the confusion? If I said I love you but smacked you, then yeah, there's a mix-up. If I gave you affection but went over and stayed with another woman, yeah there's something to be confused about. But not what i'm doing. What I say/do is cut and dry. No weird signals.
Of course I don't give everything about me away. I keep her on her toes but not in a bad way. I don't do anything mean to her except confront her about things that are important to me even if it bothers her. (like our talk we had in the car about her views on herself and me)
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