Posted this several times because I think it’s profound and certainly fits here:
“OK, now let’s have some fun. Let’s talk about sex. Let’s talk about women. Freud said he didn’t know what women wanted. I know what women want. They want a whole lot of people to talk to. What do they want to talk about? They want to talk about everything.
What do men want? They want a lot of pals, and they wish people wouldn’t get so mad at them.
Why are so many people getting divorced today? It’s because most of us don’t have extended families anymore. It used to be that when a man and a woman got married, the bride got a lot more people to talk to about everything. The groom got a lot more pals to tell dumb jokes to.
A few Americans, but very few, still have extended families. The Navahos. The Kennedys.
But most of us, if we get married nowadays, are just one more person for the other person. The groom gets one more pal, but it’s a woman. The woman gets one more person to talk to about everything, but it’s a man.
When a couple has an argument, they may think it’s about money or power or sex, or how to raise the kids, or whatever. What they’re really saying to each other, though, without realizing it, is this:
“You are not enough people!”
I met a man in Nigeria one time, an Ibo who has six hundred relatives he knew quite well. His wife had just had a baby, the best possible news in any extended family.
They were going to take it to meet all its relatives, Ibos of all ages and sizes and shapes. It would even meet other babies, cousins not much older than it was. Everybody who was big enough and steady enough was going to get to hold it, cuddle it, gurgle to it, and say how pretty it was, or handsome.
Sounds like a nightmare? To be alone all the time? Yes it is. And I look like this (WARNING NSFW)
!deleted nude photo because that’s not appropriate here!<
and why am I alone all the time when I don’t want to be? Everyone ignores me everywhere I go. It must be a personality issue. Or as OP points out, an epidemic societal issue. Or both. 😢
(~And in B4 anyone accuses me of being a s€x w0rker or 0nly f4ns, no, gross. I have a real job.) I’m just really frustrated that I work so hard to be healthy but everyone ignores everybody. Nobody talks to each other anymore.
I ended up surrounded by talkers and it sucks. I’m talking about people who act like they’ll die if they stop talking doesn’t matter about what as long as intelligible sound is coming out of their mouth.
Posted this several times because I think it’s profound and certainly fits here:
“OK, now let’s have some fun. Let’s talk about sex. Let’s talk about women. Freud said he didn’t know what women wanted. I know what women want. They want a whole lot of people to talk to. What do they want to talk about? They want to talk about everything.
What do men want? They want a lot of pals, and they wish people wouldn’t get so mad at them.
Why are so many people getting divorced today? It’s because most of us don’t have extended families anymore. It used to be that when a man and a woman got married, the bride got a lot more people to talk to about everything. The groom got a lot more pals to tell dumb jokes to.
A few Americans, but very few, still have extended families. The Navahos. The Kennedys.
But most of us, if we get married nowadays, are just one more person for the other person. The groom gets one more pal, but it’s a woman. The woman gets one more person to talk to about everything, but it’s a man.
When a couple has an argument, they may think it’s about money or power or sex, or how to raise the kids, or whatever. What they’re really saying to each other, though, without realizing it, is this: “You are not enough people!”
I met a man in Nigeria one time, an Ibo who has six hundred relatives he knew quite well. His wife had just had a baby, the best possible news in any extended family.
They were going to take it to meet all its relatives, Ibos of all ages and sizes and shapes. It would even meet other babies, cousins not much older than it was. Everybody who was big enough and steady enough was going to get to hold it, cuddle it, gurgle to it, and say how pretty it was, or handsome.
Wouldn’t you have loved to be that baby?”
Yes, THAT sounds like a fulfilling life!
I am so opposite. Completely alone all day every day forever. And it aches.
Sounds like a nightmare.
Sounds like a nightmare? To be alone all the time? Yes it is. And I look like this (WARNING NSFW)
and why am I alone all the time when I don’t want to be? Everyone ignores me everywhere I go. It must be a personality issue. Or as OP points out, an epidemic societal issue. Or both. 😢
(~And in B4 anyone accuses me of being a s€x w0rker or 0nly f4ns, no, gross. I have a real job.) I’m just really frustrated that I work so hard to be healthy but everyone ignores everybody. Nobody talks to each other anymore.
Wait, did you really just post your NSFW image on a non-NSFW Lemmy instance? You are hot af, but chill tf out bro-woman.
Okay at least someone saw it which gave me a sense of non-invisibility. I will delete it now.
Just what would cause you to go to such desperate measures?
I ended up surrounded by talkers and it sucks. I’m talking about people who act like they’ll die if they stop talking doesn’t matter about what as long as intelligible sound is coming out of their mouth.