{"id":2295,"date":"2011-04-10T21:03:29","date_gmt":"2011-04-11T02:03:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/wp\/?p=2295"},"modified":"2011-04-10T21:03:29","modified_gmt":"2011-04-11T02:03:29","slug":"i-like-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/?p=2295","title":{"rendered":"The Truth?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I like Ron very much, and I respect him for wanting to &#8220;do the right thing&#8221; by me and Peter.<\/p><p>We don&#8217;t have the spark, though, that he had with his most important priors.  <\/p><p>It may be just too late for us: too many hurts and disappointments, but bottom line, it&#8217;s finally come out that Ron doesn&#8217;t find me attractive.    <\/p><p>After explaining that his marriage to a blond-haired woman was just pay-back and his long-term affair with the overweight she-who-will-not-be-named was about money, we find that his real interest is in pretty, feminine, little-black-dress women.  <\/p><p>He thinks that&#8217;s not my deal, and up to now, I&#8217;d say he was right.  Maybe I haven&#8217;t had the courage to be that kind of person for fear of ridicule.<\/p><p>Ron&#8217;s blather about Jeanne, Melody and Susan, the three dark-haired petite women in his past, has thrown me for a loop up to now.<\/p><p>But I&#8217;m starting to develop a thicker skin.  I realize that my head has been entirely in the wrong place about this.<\/p><p>Rather than thinking of my body as a faithful companion, I have ended up hating it.  It&#8217;s not a correct or just way to think.  <\/p><p>Ron&#8217;s regrettable superficiality is the problem, not my body.<\/p><p>Yesterday, my body endured a grueling session at Edgewater.  The cuts in my hands were so numerous that I started bleeding last night when Ron and I were on the phone, and my back and legs were as stiff as a board.<\/p><p>This morning, though, my body has healed enough that I feel pretty good.  I&#8217;m proud of my level of fitness.<\/p><p>Ron, though, focuses on the negatives.  Even after months of conversations, he still doesn&#8217;t get it.  His dodging of legitimate questions about what he finds attractive and feminine is irritating and insulting.<\/p><p>He said last night that he doesn&#8217;t want me to be a little black dress piece of eye candy that he can parade into the country club because that&#8217;s not <em>him<\/em>.<\/p><p>Thus, it appears that&#8217;s exactly what he does want, but until he gets back in shape himself, he&#8217;s chosen me because he thinks there won&#8217;t be competition for my attention.  As evidently there was with Jeanne, Melody and Susan.<\/p><p>I&#8217;m just glad that this house has a second bedroom.  The last thing in the world I want is to sleep with someone who prefers an Audrey Hepburn fantasy to a strong, brave, flesh and blood woman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I like Ron very much, and I respect him for wanting to &#8220;do the right thing&#8221; by me and Peter.We don&#8217;t have the spark, though, that he had with his most important priors. It may be just too late for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/?p=2295\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2295\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}