<p>Well, FountainSiren knows how to liven up a thread.</p>
<p>Berurah, I am VERY sorry that you missed my MANY comments about knowing happy couples and being certain that YOUR situations were different from mine. Such comments are plentiful, pro-marriage, pro-love, and pro-choice. 
(I suspect that it is the last to which y’all object. ) I did not think that I could be more clear about the fact that I am NOT rejecting men, your lives, or marriage in general - in the future, I will be sure to say it more often, so that those who skim posts will be sure to see them and understand their sincerity.</p>
<p>My comments were directed solely in regards to my own life, my own ex-boyfriends, and my own desire for my future. If you choose to extend those comments well beyond their scope, I do apologize for not so explicitly limiting them. As the mother of three boys, you have no need to be offended, unless one of them moonlights as one of my dates. (The second clause is meant entirely humourously and with full acknowledgement that you have raised happy, well-adjusted, loving, caring, and respectful children - and children like those do not come into being by accident, but by having parents after whom to model themselves.)</p>
<p>I did not say that men are pigs because I simply do not think it to be true. If the penumbras of my posts gave one that impression, fine - but I will state again that such is not my opinion. As for the whores - that’s ALL you. I can’t control that interpretation without writing a book. (Of course, anything more than a sentence and a subordinate clause is “protesting too much!”)</p>
<p>I also think that perusing AllMusic’s first post would show that yes, some posters are advocating that I do things with which I am not comfortable! Now, no one would counsel a girl, upset because her peers mocked her academic excellence, to stop achieving; yet, such submission is appropriate in my case. And you cannot understand why I get upset?</p>
<p>Jym - how can I get myself one of those fancy PhDs? When you get one, you know more about people’s lives, whom you’ve never met, than they do!</p>
<p>Can you also become a psychic? You could charge quite a bit for palm-reading. Or, since you KNOW when there’s more to the story and KNOW that you are ALWAYS correct, why not sell your services to politicians? In our muck-raking society, your vision and crystal ball atop a couch would be invaluable for anyone seeking to discredit the opposition!</p>
<p>As a future lawyer, I really must admire your handiwork! You’ve set up a situation in which, from any angle, at every turn, you are right. You dislike a personal choice? Opponent needs therapy! Opponent explains? Protesting too much! Opponent elaborates? Crystal ball tells you that opponent is wrong! As I said, skip the therapy and go into politics, babycakes! :)</p>
<p>In other words - a so-called therapist who presumes that she knows more about someone’s life than the person who actually lived it, then, based on those (incorrect) assumptions, tells the person that she is overreacting - is nothing save a living, breathing advertisment against her own profession. </p>
<p>I will not take this opportunity to insult you, merely to say that you might get a kinder, gentler Aries if you were to phrase your ideas as questions, not as judgments. “Was there more than that conversation?” is more appropriate than stating that you know more about my life than I do. Then again, in order to understand that, you, like a broken lightbulb, would have to be open to changing your opinion. ;)</p>
) and political surgery (something which I’m sure we already have due to coordinated care)?</p>
How’s that? By the way, why aren’t there more women dentists?</p>