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Love. Ugh.

 
  

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I'm Rick Jones, bitch
10:42 / 23.03.05
So yeah. Head over heels. Smitten. She has a dude but quite honestly, I'm not sure how long that'll be an issue. Confused. Sad. Not going to see her for aggggeeessss due to holidays. More details available on request. I seriously will pine away without your love and support, barbelith.

 
 
Katherine
10:45 / 23.03.05
*hands over kleenex and a glass of wine*
 
 
Tryphena Absent
11:33 / 23.03.05
sweetplumsugarfairysoldier barbelith only gives you love support after you've given the gossip up.
 
 
I'm Rick Jones, bitch
11:38 / 23.03.05
Ugh. I'll spill the beans when I get back from the Chippy.
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
11:44 / 23.03.05
Why do Boybeloids never fall for girls who don't have boyfriends?
 
 
Loomis
11:44 / 23.03.05
*hands over kleenex and copy of Razzle.*
 
 
Bear
11:46 / 23.03.05
Barbeloids love misery. I'm in love with Lyndsay Lohan anyone have any advice?
 
 
Ganesh
11:59 / 23.03.05
Head over heels. Smitten.

Infatuated... check.

She has a dude but quite honestly, I'm not sure how long that'll be an issue.

Presence of boyfriend... check.

Confused.

Confused... check.

Not going to see her for aggggeeessss due to holidays.

Period of absence/separation... check.

I seriously will pine away without your love and support, barbelith.

Displaced request for emotional input... check.

You're a Barbelith 5, dude.
 
 
■
12:09 / 23.03.05
Why do Boybeloids never fall for girls who don't have boyfriends?

Oh, I do! I fall for ones who have husbands and girlfriends, instead.
 
 
I'm Rick Jones, bitch
12:14 / 23.03.05
I think it's a recessive gene thing, Haus.

Anyway.

Until a while ago she was just a mysterious girl in one of my classes, until we got talking down the pub, and I could literaly hear us clicking. She's in shitty flats and bored out of her skull>? So am I! We should do stuff.

And we did hang out, in spite of me almost dropping it after the letters "BF" floated into corespondance. And it was fucking great. Entirely chaste, but fucking great. We ended up talking past 4am two nights in a row.

It was good, because I wasn't beating myself up with it. But alas, this is me we're talking about. I realised two things: (i) she had a dude and (ii) she was going to fail the year and lives nowhere near me. I tried to let it drop.

Until about a week hence, when one of my friends refused to let me drop it. He had fucking eyes, he said, and I was being an idiot. I was in there. WE'RE JUST GOOD FRIENDS, I said.

Anyway after the pub the idea is we're going to one place to drink more and she's going to hang out with her man at some other place nearby. She doesn't know exactly where, but my friend does. He offers to walk her there, she stays for a drink and leaves when he prompts her. I spend the time alone with friend #2 brooding like a motherfucker. He tries to convince me that he was in the same situation last yeah, blah blah. I state again: WE'RE JUST GOOD FRIENDS. Friend #1 returns, and after teasing me senseless for five minutes over getting off with her (he was lying, but I was drunk and morbid), tells me she'd hesitated before going in. He'd had to prompt her, again. But, I say, WE'RE JUST GOOD FRIENDS. And she's going to fail the year. So I want to get used to the idea of losing her, indeed of never having her. It turns out my friend is able to pull a few strings for her, if he can get her details (keeping this vague y'understand). At which point we have to shut the fuck up talking about her and start talking to her, because she's just walked in. Alone.

Apparently the club was shit or something and she'd lost him. Upshot: I walk her home. And end up getting pissed round hers at the weekend about 15 minutes after boyfy left (all above board). And hung out all monday, before she left in the evening for four weeks. perspective: I met her a little over four weeks ago. I will pine and brood and pine again.

But I daren't say anything to her, because I might piss her off and lose her utterly.
 
 
Sax
12:19 / 23.03.05
What you should do is go and beat up her boyfriend right in front of her. Not seriously or anything - not put him in hospital. Just rough him up then finish him off with a smart punch to the nose (be careful not to break it, though). She'll absolutly love it, and you'll probably have a boner from the excitement of the fight.

That's worked for me seven times so far.
 
 
Eloi Tsabaoth
12:24 / 23.03.05
Love. Ugh.
Sounds like you've done something entirely different onto our shoulder.
Anyone have a paper towel?
 
 
Tryphena Absent
12:38 / 23.03.05
You people are being ruder than this deserves. You're a student? Who wasn't in this situation when they were a student?

Now I would love to tell you to walk away, leave it alone, that's the sensible thing to do but the truth is that I've never met a person who would be able to. She either likes you or she doesn't like you, you can face humiliation and tell her or you can stay caught in the trap of luuusssttt. Either way if you don't get a chance to screw her there will always be a part of you that wishes you had so if I was you I'd just try to get her in to bed via alcohol. You're not in love.
 
 
Tryphena Absent
12:39 / 23.03.05
And forget the boyfriend- he doesn't figure- he lost her in a club and she left.
 
 
I'm Rick Jones, bitch
12:43 / 23.03.05
I don't think about fucking her, though. It's all about her extra time and her (beatbox relevant part of Prince's backing here) kiss.

You've got me all wrong. For that to work I'd have to be near-insensate on cheap rum, and the sense of self loathing is doing well enough without preying on people I care about sexually.
 
 
I'm Rick Jones, bitch
12:44 / 23.03.05
I mean, sexually preying on people I care about. Bad, bad phrasing.
 
 
Tryphena Absent
12:46 / 23.03.05
Don't fool yourself, you've got the warm tingles for someone you've known for four weeks, you just can't imagine fucking her because you haven't even kissed her yet.
 
 
agvvv
12:46 / 23.03.05
Naughty phrasing actually
 
 
I'm Rick Jones, bitch
12:47 / 23.03.05
Oh, I could imagine if I tried hard enough, I'm sure.

Is romance DEAD to you?
 
 
Regrettable Juvenilia
12:54 / 23.03.05
If you follow the advice of Sax and try to start a physical fight with her boyfriend, I will personally give you £50. Or give it to BUPA, whichever you prefer.
 
 
Jub
13:02 / 23.03.05
so how old are you anyway boogaloo?
 
 
I'm Rick Jones, bitch
13:04 / 23.03.05
Early 20's, three year age gap
 
 
Ganesh
13:09 / 23.03.05
Is romance DEAD to you?

Yours is. That "clicking" sound's the call of circling Death Watch Beetles, y'know.

Or, more precisely, it's not actually alive. You have no compelling evidence that this girl is in any way attracted to you romantically, but already (what the more touchy-feely shrinks among us would call) your Vivid Fantasy Life is in full flow. Logically, if the pair of you were this star-cross'd, she'd have ditched the boyfriend. Resolving this minor cognitive dissonance is the next step: you'll soon devise a convincing rationale for their continued relationship, ideally one which leaves the object of your affection blameless and in need of rescue; you will then be well on your way to full-blown White Knight Syndrome...

Or you could, y'know, try communicating some of this stuff to her. You risk rejection, of course, but better to have loved and lost than to live out a one-sided (and deeply Barbe-stereotypical) fantasy in your head. I'd say.
 
 
Tryphena Absent
13:09 / 23.03.05
Is romance DEAD to you?

I believe in real love and I don't think lust is a negative thing.
 
 
Katherine
13:22 / 23.03.05
To be honest you may as well make a move, if she's not interested then at least you know. You seem to be beating yourself up over her already. If she likes you back then you have a starting point to a proper relationship instead of fantasy or if it doesn't work then you can at least move on or start avoiding her like you were trying to do before your mates got involved.
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
13:26 / 23.03.05
That's about the size of it. If she's getting kicked out anyway, and as long as her boyfriend isn't physically scary, you may as well tell her you like her. To be honest, though, if anything was going to happen it would probably have happened when you got pissed with her. That's how university works.

If you're so sure that she'll dump the boyfriend, wait for a bit. No biggie. Bear in mind that if she's as wonderful as you claim she will have far more suitors after she has broken up with boyfriend than while she is with boyfriend, so your patience may not be rewarded.
 
 
agvvv
13:26 / 23.03.05
Exactly
 
 
I'm Rick Jones, bitch
13:38 / 23.03.05
She isn't getting kicked out. And I'm fully aware of how dissonant my feelings could be - I was trying to knock this shit on the head a week ago, and it's only in light of certain events I've got my hopes up again.

And if I get a better offer in the meantime, I get a better offer, y'know?
 
 
_Boboss
13:39 / 23.03.05
yeah i think the best advice here is the booze. you're students and she's failing. get her to the pub tomorrow at eleven am, order the first two g'n'ts and be in bed with her by half-two. if there's anything there at all then it really will be that simple.
 
 
I'm Rick Jones, bitch
13:45 / 23.03.05
Why don't I just slip her some fucking roofies? Jesus.

Barbelith: No longer cute, nor fluffy
 
 
agvvv
13:47 / 23.03.05
Has it ever been?
 
 
I'm Rick Jones, bitch
13:54 / 23.03.05
I certainly didn't expect a bit of lighthearted angst leading to the barb advising me to like a sociopathicaly calculating rapist...
 
 
Olulabelle
13:57 / 23.03.05
The thing about love is, it's not a few long late night conversations and some dancing at a party. If you've only known this girl for four weeks but she's all you can think about then it's lust. It is lust which may or may not lead to falling in love, and then loving, but it's not currently love.

So I also think you should sleep with her if she's up for it because firstly, if she is, then obviously you can stop obsessing about whether she likes you and secondly, because once that's out of the way you can see whether you actually would like to be falling in love with her. Or not.

Have you not got a phone number for her? Her email? Can you not see her over the holidays at all?

To everyone: Seriously, why are there so many of these unrequited love stories going in our midst? Is everyone super-sensitive? Personally I think the answer is to stop dithering and over-analysing and just get on with it.
 
 
Ganesh
14:01 / 23.03.05
I certainly didn't expect a bit of lighthearted angst leading to the barb advising me to like a sociopathicaly calculating rapist...

You seem to like her well enough already, whether she's a sociopathically calculating rapist or not.

(Dr Freud is stealing your words...)
 
 
agvvv
14:07 / 23.03.05
olulabelle is right. What you are feeling right now isnt love, although it might perfectly well lead to it. I say throw yourself at her. Spill it all out, have sex, and take it from there.
 
  

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