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Did you have to shout so loud? I mean a nice, direct statement of said proclamation would have sufficed. This is why I don't go places with you anymore.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jowy
I just couldn't keep our love affair a secret any more, Yams! I had to shout your name from the rooftops!Quote:
Originally Posted by Yamaneko
Boyfriends/girlfriends are usually a big part of people's lives. And in conversations, they're bound to come up a bunch of times. Just like if you have kids, you're gonna talk about your kids a lot. If you have a bunch of pets, you're gonna talk about them a lot. If you have some really important friends in your life you're gonna be doing, "guess what my friend did last night" a lot. It's natural.
It bugs me like you wouldnt believe. I wont go any further, because its too easy to slip into a rant, but it just sets me on fire.
You can tell when it's intentional, though.
Aww, but I had the whole weekend planned! Now I have to sit alone eating bon-bons and watching Lifetime movies. :(Quote:
Originally Posted by YamanekoDid you have to shout so loud? I mean a nice, direct statement of said proclamation would have sufficed. This is why I don't go places with you anymore.Quote:
Originally Posted by JowyI just couldn't keep our love affair a secret any more, Yams! I had to shout your name from the rooftops!Quote:
Originally Posted by Yamaneko
ehhhh......it doesn't bother me........Unless they stick it in my face
I don't mind...maybe I'll be happy for them too..
This is General Chat, not the FF forums. (had to be said)Quote:
Originally Posted by black orb
When I was single, bitter and jealous, I didn't like people showing off their Partners. Now I'm in a Relationship, I don't mind at all, and I now realise how stupid and selfish I was for objecting in the first place.
I don't mention my Girlfriend too much - only when there's a genuine reason for doing so (Eg - in a "do you have a Boyfriend/Girlfriend thread. :P). She is on a few pictures with me in the Album, but I don't see anything wrong with that. If people don't want to look at the Album because they're jealous of others, that's fine. =/
I hate it. It just shows how much respect the two partners have for their own relationship.
I agree with Yams first statement and Nick on this one (but not to his extent :p ). If you like each other, fine, great, congratulations, however, it is something that can be kept on a low down from people who really don't care.
doesn't affect me in the slightest.
It becomes bothersome when the relationship is paraded about, like most anything. If they did the same thing with their cat, I would feel the same way. It's simply when something becomes a trophy for all the world to look at, and the holder of this prized relationship seems to flaunt it about... that is when it bothers me.
I understand, however, how it would happen without them actually realizing it. I myself am in a relationship, and have found myself to be what I percieve to be genuine love. When I first admitted to myself and her that I was in love, I wished to scream to the sky and meadow, the trees and birds. I wished to have it known to all and everything that I was in love, and that I was in love with her. I wanted to, but simply said what I felt.
Our love is much more mature, and as such, I can sit back and view how and where our relationship has gone. I was what is many times termed twitterpated. A rush of emotions and hormones coupled with the need to continually tell the other how much you love them. It gets overdone a lot, really.
In many ways, the unnessecary proclamation to the public of one's relationship with another seems like a strange version of PDA. There are moments and words, actions and pictures, that I think should remain private, intimate, and/or sentimental. Those are my thoughts, and some will most likely disagree, but I stand on such a thing.
I just fail at understanding the need or want to continually showcase your love and affection for someone else to the world. Once in a great while may be touching or cute, but to incessantly hear of your relationship with so and so and you did such and such in this place and that...
Wearing a wedding ring, holding hands or eachothers' waists, posting pictures of eachother together in the Album or relevant threads, or speaking of your romantics in proper threads and topics of conversation is perfectly fine. I myself sometimes get carried away when given the chance to talk of her and I and the relationship we share - it's a part of the madness of being in love, perhaps...
But there is a certain point, I think, to where it becomes bothersome and slightly... odd...
My cousin does it all the time with her boyfriend. Im so sick of it, specially now Im single. Anything he buys her, she has to parade and show off and refers to himas her sexy partner in crime. Give me a break.
It's pretty annoying when someone's life begins to revolve around their partner, and there's a distinct lack of independent thinking, but otherwise I don't really care. And I don't think I'd ever do something like that unless someone gave me loooove potions :o