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Reflections on the perception of obesity
Reflections on the perception of obesity
Apr 10th
I felt compelled to write a little something here, it had been a while, and I wanted to give a status report about what’s going on! Since I have become such an “open book” (or so you think).
It’s amazing. So many changes. I was living in a reality that was described in my own surreal dreams with metaphor such as looking through a broken camera lens and trying desperately to talk someone into staying when they only came by to say hi and go back to where the grass is greener.
I’m so lucky. I have to put aside any personal bias, any prior resentment, and any assumption that there is a soul elsewhere on this planet who can begin to understand how the combination of past events with what has been happening in the present is staggering to even my imagination. The dreams have stopped entirely, or at least my ability to remember them has. The idea floats around in my head that possibly, I am living in such a dream that there is no more room for the strange parody of reality that my subconscious seems to feel the need to show me occasionally.
With just a few changes, I have changed my entire reality. Giving up vodka entirely is such a small part of it. I was so ready to claim my status as “alcoholic”, and now I even have to ask myself if I was truly “there” or not. Giving up drinking was only a major component in getting someone to come back because of their personal history and past trauma associated with that one particular drug. While the dreams have stopped, what doesn’t stop is the only real regret I have about what happened.
Why? Why didn’t I see it sooner. Why did I think I wanted to keep alcohol as a part of my routine when it was obviously causing physical, emotional, and even financial damage? Why would I have insisted that I be given a chance to slowly come off of it instead of just giving it up entirely all at once. I never went through “withdrawal”. I never got sick. I never even had a serious episode of “the shakes” or the “dt’s”. The day after I quit I didn’t crave it, didn’t miss it, and felt relief when I would drink something that wasn’t accompanied with the familiar sting of high percentage alcohol mixed with something entirely inappropriate and barely passable. The sting would not end at the mouth though. It would continue all the way down to the belly, where it would generally cause a mild and nearly constant state of upset. In addition to the damage it was doing to my relationship, I never quite understood why I was so quick to defend the consumption of this dangerous substance even though it physically hurt to get to the point that I wanted to reach so badly with it.
The major relationship equation has been created. Alcohol+response+denial=eventual separation. With another alcoholic, things might have been fine. I might have assumed the role much earlier until I just got sick of it. I had phases in my past where I used and abused alcohol, but I always quit eventually and “switched” to some other preoccupation. This time though, the alcohol had done some damage. Eight months of separation from the one and only person who I felt could possibly ever be “the one”, and several attempts to lie to myself about how I felt about every aspect of the reality around me.
I could not help but make the analogy to the “bad superman” from one of the old movies, maybe superman 2. It had Richard Prior I believe. The main metaphor I take from that example is in the way that Mr. S had to face himself. He had to see what he had become. He had to go to the worst extent that even he was capable of, and he had to see what he could become if he didn’t maintain some hint of discipline about who he really is and what he really believes in. The only way to defeat that side of himself was to literally kill it. To fight it to the death. To finally make a decision about if you are going to continue down the path of self destruction or if you are going to put away that part of yourself and move forward in a way that doesn’t cause a constant battle with the conscious and the sense of what’s real and what’s right.
I got lucky. For a brief moment, I saw through the haze, and with the constant recounting of all those past events over and over in my waking moments and in my sleep, I finally saw it. I had to stop the lie to myself about hating “the one” because I could not have her. I had to stop lying to myself about being able to handle or control the use of alcohol. I had to stop hating on not just one person, but an entire sub culture that I associated with that person. Even beyond trolling on the sub culture itself, I had to lie to myself about what I even found physically attractive in a woman. I have to take a quote from the Matrix, “what a mind fuck”.
That’s why when I finally snap out of it and check all my hosting stats, I was amused to no end, and actually flattered to see the thread over at “ssbbwchan.com“. Every time I go through one of these psycho phases I am always a little impressed when I look back and see the extent to which one of my little characters has stirred up the pot somewhere and gotten exactly the attention “he” wanted.
In a way, I have had to face that side of myself, and realize that it was really sad and pathetic, because I have spent so many years creating stuff that I’m lucky people want to even give away or share or look at in and of itself. It’s something that I always wanted to do from a very early age, an age in which I could have gotten away with at the time but certainly couldn’t now! lol, not really, yeah lol. I’m still kind of obnoxious, but that side had got to be kept “in check” and all plastic now. I’ve been given the supreme motivation of not wanting to make someone look too bad, or any worse than she would after coming back to the crazy guy and taking a chance with her life, allegedly.
I’m sure that some would assume I would get at least a little offended by the kind of references that follow me, but rarely do people understand the way in which I am able to carry on an act in order to vent a mood and be in perfect control of it even when I am in no control of it at all. I am not saying I can handle the booze, I’m saying that I have gazed right at the part of me that comes out when under the influence of it, and I have to give props to the way this character sometimes went balls to the wall with whatever crazy argument, no matter how ludicrous or insane it was. I don’t have time now to even go back and re-read some of the crazy shit I’ve written here, and I am literally blocked from going to certain places to even be reminded of the crazy shit I have posted in them.
I can’t blame them though, because “that guy” got exactly what he wanted, and now “this guy” has too, by tossing that guy out on his fucking ass. lol
Adjustment. Time itself has to be re-adjusted a bit. While there are so many times I regret the way that I acted as a direct result of facing consequences I so deserved, there are other times when I realize that when Candy came back the first time, I was not truly ready. She wasn’t either. We’ve talked, and she shares now how she wasn’t given the time to really negotiate the booze out before coming back the first time. I won’t get all up into how she ended up coming back, but the timing was certainly unexpected on both sides. This last time, Candy was given an opportunity to totally give up on me, and in the process I was given the opportunity to hit that famously talked about “rock bottom” thingy. If I can’t believe how I let myself lose so much control of myself with booze, then I have to remember that even the people on those intervention shows have to reach a certain point before they “wake up”. I’m still more ashamed of the fact that it was so easy to give up the booze at all, because I could have done it so much sooner if I knew what was at stake. That part of me really didn’t know.
It wasn’t like I was getting tore up every night either. It was just a few drinks, barely a dent in what I started to consume once I had lost her the last time. I had to almost get a DWI, (oh I am so lucky for the timing of that speeding ticket), I had to almost lose my job (yeah I know, I could quit, but I’m greedy and need a challenge and Candy needs “time off” from me:), and I had to suffer from nearly constant and horrible surreal nightmares until I finally realized that I was lying to myself about everything I started to believe in just because I lost Candy the last time. The second I finally talked to her by voice and told her I had to stop the hating, she somehow believed me, and knew, this time, after all the crazy flipping back and forth behavior, I was ready to talk for real. I still can’t believe we went from that point to the point where she was getting on a plane with tickets I purchased online for her just like the last time. When I talked to her by phone, it was selfish because I couldn’t take the nightmares and living the lie anymore. I wasn’t trying to get her to come back, I was trying to break the curse I had put on myself that I would never go back to super size, and never attempt to find someone “like her” ever again.
Because I was really ready to talk, it would naturally come up that I was already seeing the devastation I was causing, and I realized and regretted not giving up booze totally way way earlier. The real tragedy is still in the fact that I was reaching out for help in stopping, but Candy was not equipped to stop me even if it was what she wanted and I was asking her to. I was one week away from making a big change that would have stopped me from drinking eventually anyway, but it all had to happen the way it happened. I am so much better prepared to move now, and because I have started a job and actually kept it on my own terms, I am much more disciplined and even more determined to return not only to where I was before Candy left, but what I was pulling off when I first met Candy to begin with.
This has been an opportunity for me to start over from scratch. To wipe the slate clean, and make every attempt to make things perfect not to avoid conflict, but to make each other truly happy. This is an opportunity for me to see without personal bias the things about myself that I can change for the better, even beyond just giving up the booze.
I will always be a bit “different”, as Candy is herself. We are not “average” by any means, not just because of who we are individually, but because of what we have the potential to be combined and happy. Candy makes me want to be a better person, and because I can appreciate it instead of fighting it, I will inevitably be better. I can’t try to convince the world of that, as I am reminded by Candy herself that it will take time for things to smooth out and for people to forget, as they always do. As far as I’m concerned, I have to stop playing games online with people, even the ones that I myself think of as “innocent”. I can’t afford (or I’m too cheap for) a P.R. person, so my best bet is to stay quiet, or at least stay on subject with what I’m writing about, and not spend too much time in any particular online forum or social outlet like facebook. Even here I have to chill out, because it’s probably not “cool” to be so open and forthcoming with such personal shit, but I don’t seem to care too much about that lately either.
I have one perfect, wonderful, awesome responsibility first and foremost that I am grateful and elated to have. I want to make one person happier than she could be anywhere else or with anyone else. Over time, people may even come to realize that as crazy as I can be online, I have the potential for the equal and opposite reverse emotion as well. I believe we all carry that balance, and I am just unable or unwilling to fake or cover what I’m feeling at a particular time. I know it will seem strange that I can be flattered by the kind of commentary on ssbbwchan, but I am well prepared for it with my experience with youtube, and of course with my first experiences way back in 1998 when I was getting kicked out of some of the same forums I got kicked out of recently with the same kind of routine. People don’t remember all that though, as they will not remember this. If they do, then I have gone above and beyond the simple aspect of “online promotion” and I have truly achieved online immortality.
Now. What do I do with ssbbwcandy, ssbbwcandygodiva, and hardcoressbbw!
I’ve already got to kind of encourage someone very gently to play around with and fix a few issues with candygodiva and hungryfatchick!
<3 If I can only get a few videos that I CHOOSE to be used over at a ssbbw “tube site” instead of whole lists of clips4sale stuff going out on daily motion that would be cool. lol I am so insane… Now I’m working full time *and* doing the webmaster thing, trying to keep up with the websites *and* create new content, having to set up, edit, and then upload and list everything. I found an email from last month and realized that I have been doing everything for a while, and I am so very fortunate that I have the ability to do it! I don’t have time to be the nasty little troll I was when i was all drunk and shit. I got distracted there for a sec, and it’s time for me to get to work! This site sure don’t pay the bills, but I have a feeling down deep in my still hazy at times mind that there is some reason all of this typing had to happen all the way through. Just like there has to be a reason I put up the crying video. I don’t know if I could act that pathetic if I was trying, so it’s cool to see that I managed to pull it off to a degree where it becomes a topic of discussion even outside of all the harsh comments some videos have received right there at youtube! :>
No, I don’t deserve to be so lucky. I don’t even feel it myself at times. But… I have paid a pretty high price. It’s still nowhere near as bad as it could have been, but then again, I finally had to pull myself up as usual, not able to depend on an intervention style production to save me from myself. I had to just stop one behavior totally and go back to doing what I do best. I’m sure there is probably a pretty distinct difference in my style of writing when I’m on alcohol and off of it, so it’s probably going to become obvious pretty quickly that I have stopped. I’m sure some people could not believe it, I could not believe it myself for a while. I was worried for a second that I had made a promise I could not keep, but damn it was so very easy to give up booze to get Candy. What a trade! Not only that, but there are other behaviors that I can easily change as well, and now I have my “diplomat” back to hang out in places where I can’t seem to help being some kind of douchebag in.
I’m kind of cocky at times I know, i can’t help it. There is only one person I will hold exempt from my douchebaggery, and she has been given the keys to the vault and permission to bust balls when I am doing something stupid like defending the right to drink again!
Ok, some clarification before I haul. I have a seemingly special fondness for this kind of online stuff. It’s a strange fascination with the way that some people, especially those who stick around for the “long haul” in anything they are doing, will still prefer negative attention rather than none at all. There is a part of my “main” personality apparently, a little slice, that little bit that had enough wiggle room to escape control while under the influence of vodka, that seems to enjoy riling people up and “stirring the pot” so to speak. “Feeding the trolls” is another term I’ve heard associated with it. It’s like a slow motion burn instead of a few nasty notes. Sitting idly by and watching the negative accumulate in places like youtube seem to be on the level of some kind of social experiment gone wrong. A part of me wants to keep the little glimmer of attention going in between times when it comes so easily without even trying. More important than whatever I did in the video, I find it amusing and interesting that it got the highest views of my uploads, and it also got the nastiest of the nasty comments. Instead of “moderating” them, I’m amused and sometimes even surprised by the creativity of it.
I believe there is a part of myself that wants to somehow identify with the phenomenon of fat hate that I am inevitably going to constantly skirt the edges of. Maybe over time, decades, of having a preference that I could not change even IF I TRIED (lol), and seeing the level of strangeness and hypocrisy that mirrors every other sub culture in existence, allowed me an opportunity to let myself go emotionally in a way that I had never seen even within myself. That “other guy” thing carried out the exact and equal intensity and opposite feeling towards what I had always loved and adored. What an amazing ability, and what an incredible extent of self loathing to have such a twisted appreciation for all of the incoming negativity. And then I have the gall to call it an “experiment” on top of it all. What a dick.
Ok, now I have to stop procrastinating. this allowance of mental masturbation is rare if not impossible to acheive now that I’m trying to fool myself into thinking I can play the part of the “worker bee” until or even after I eventually and inevitably get “outed” for being the big nasty porno guy that I am. How quaint, and how fun. Maybe that’s what I’m waiting for to finally give up a “real job” and go back to doing web stuff full time. I’m so torn. Maybe I’m trying to be even more of a spectacle now because i really want it. I want to get outed and I want them to confront me and tell me what they want to do about it. Will I get hard while I look into their eyes as they try to “shame” me for fucking a woman over 400lbs right on a website? ROFLMAO
I guess I’ve been working on “growing a pair” for quite a while. Maybe it took so much trauma to finally cause that “bad guy” to give up. The booze got too hard. It hurt too much. It was too dangerous. I was breaking the “rules” I had put into place to protect myself, those immediately around me, and even those who I don’t know but might have an opportunity to experience mutually beneficial social interaction with. this is all years down the line. I guess my point is, not only do I not care about being so “liked” in a mean, nasty, horrible, blatantly offensive world that tries to wrap itself nicely in a neat bow of fake plastic morality, but I don’t seem to have enough concern to even be plastic about it. I feel fulfilled and rewarded when I can help someone else, as long as my ass doesn’t hurt after doing it. I want other people to be happy, unless they are the “type” that just can’t be, at that moment in time within their own personal reality.
I want to look into the eyes of the people I work “for” and see if they enjoy trying to make me sweat instead of making me hot in other ways. I am so freaking creepy and nasty, and so very fortunate to be with one of the very few people who can appreciate it, and just happen, by the luck of the universe and my luck to find her, to have a body that makes me hard like no drug for erectile dysfunction can even come close to.
Jan 12th
I needed to install a new “mod” to the “blog”.
Something that someone told me to read… It reminded me of something…
The Sith Code as taught by Darth Bane:
Dec 21st
Edited on 1.11.12, I’m sure that I’m not finished. Things changed, and I would like to think I have too. This is why I won’t even send a personalized apology, but I will take time out to edit this post. I think I may have to go back and edit a few others as well, even though they kind of “track the crazy” that I went through over the process of losing the love of my life, going through the five phases of mourning, and then getting stuck on “anger” for quite a while. After giving up the “hate” because I realize I was only fooling myself, it’s time to do the “damage control”, even if it is just a bunch of text that I never thought anyone was even looking at. Here goes, sorry about offending anyone, I am changing yet again, and it’s not because I “got my love back” because I still have to stay separated from her for months to prove that I am “ready” for this. And… Because she has made obligations that I respect, understand, and don’t want to mess up. Here is the original post, but changed because I was asked nicely, *and* because I do have remorse…
Ok, what follows is the post that I have edited, but left in place instead of deleting so that “some interested party out there” realizes that I do care, and I am sorry.
My hate blooms like a flower on a cactus in the harsh, hot, unforgiving desert. I can’t stop it. It crawls up the back of my brain like some unwanted insect, infecting my daily thoughts, inspiring me to send angry text messages and emails. It directs me to post angry notes in dimensions and other forums where being in exile only really hurts my “bottom line”. Too angry to stop it, too foolish to care, the blending of love and hate deep within my brain took over, and I was consumed by an emotional confusion that I have yet to ever experience in my life.
I try to put it out of my mind. I try to forget. I try to ignore the feelings as they slowly creep into my brain and make me wish I had hurt the woman that hurt me. I spent almost a decade of my life taking care of a woman who ssi considers an “invalid”. I helped her get benefits, I changed her tampon, and in the days before the installation of “the bidet” I wiped her big fat ass. I did everything for her. Even worse, I would be told that I was making her “dependent” upon me, even though I’m sure that even now, she is dependent upon someone. Someone other than me.
The woman that ran away from so many things in her life had to eventually run away from me. She tried to run away so many times, but I was so infatuated I refused to see it. I assumed that nobody would ever take the time or effort to really take her away, but she finally took herself away. I also didn’t realize that I was seriously at fault myself, for refusing to listen, and more importantly, for never getting counseling for the issues that I had when my love returned after leaving the first time.
One night, with no provocation, she looked at me and told me, as I was cooking dinner for both of us, that she no longer wanted to live with me. She hardened her cruel, nasty, mean heart and told me that she would “rather live under a bridge” than live with me. She told me she was “sick of hearing” my voice. She told me that she could not take living with me anymore. A few days later, while waiting on the flight that would take her away from me, she would look over at me, knowing that I looked at her big fat body with a longing that only a “fat admirer” could know, and she got up on the bed. She put her big huge ass up in the air and told me that I could be inside of her “just one more time”. It was so cruel, so heartless. It warped my brain, my thinking, my sexuality, and my very being.
The last day that she would spend in my little crappy apartment she sat on her computer, telling me to come over as I looked at her, and she would give me a “final blow job”. She would tell me that she wanted a piece of me inside of her as she left me, breaking my heart, turning me cold, changing me into what I am today.
I was told that I made someone “dependent”, and my relationship was based on co-dependency… Whoa, I had to remove a sentence totally because it was kind of nasty and mean… I was so fucking mean! It’s hard to believe it now, but my hate was only as strong as my love. If I had no emotional connection with my love, I would have simply moved on, probably within the first few weeks rather than lingering on like a crazed stalker for over seven months… Photo that was below is removed due to an assumption that someone didn’t want me to post it here.
Now Candy has gotten much bigger, in just 7 months after leaving, and I freaked out when I saw a photo that looked like the love of my life had gained weight instead of losing it like she said she would when she left. The co-dependency that so many people had talked about seemed to stab me in the heart as I watched what looked like a total disregard for the dependency created by weight gain and careless stuffing.
I was so angry, so pissed off about how she hurt me. Even new friends says I’m “passive aggressive”, and I totally understand now, because my current girlfriend has to put up with that shit and I am trying so hard to change now…
I’ve just suggested to someone that they redirect candygodiva.com and hungryfatchick.com to go to her site because at this time, they are going to “parked” pages because I aggravated and haunted someone to the point where they finally changed nameservers… I just sent an email suggesting that they at least “redirect” those domains to one of their sites because it’s so fucking sad and pathetic that they go to “parked” pages!!! Here is the email:
Nope… I removed the email because I never even really read it before copying and pasting, and it’s not like the email shames anyone any more than it shames me, because I mention having to spend 3 days in “observation” in early september because I freaked out to the point where I was ready to do something drastic to get “out of here” so the pain would finally stop. I guess it’s a good thing that I didn’t, because there is now hope, but I have to also hope that my past behavior doesn’t do what I intended for it to do back then… Prevent any possibility that my love would return. Yes, I was working so hard to sabotage any possibility of someone coming back to me because I felt that I could not take the pain of being left again. The only difference now, is that after so many months, and the realization that hating someone was a trick I was playing on myself, I realize what I was doing wrong. Yes, I have a problem with alcohol. They say “the first step is admitting you have a problem”, and now I sure do know it. Half of the angry blog posts and messed up face book behavior was inspired by alcohol, the other half by denial. I can only hope that I haven’t screwed up again, but then again, my past will always catch up with me in one way or another. I know there are going to be all kinds of people warning my love from ever returning. It is something that I honestly can’t blame them for doing. I am comforted by the fact that other people love and care for this woman to the extent that I did. I can totally agree that my love should not move in with “some crazy guy”, but…. I am working hard to change because that crazy guy didn’t know how to lose someone that was so important for so very long. The hate, as I said before, was only inspired by the loss of love, and that hatred was expressed to the same degree as the love that I have had for so many years.
I did, and probably still do have unresolved issues… That is obvious. I will pose the question though, what guy who is so sexually attracted to a woman so huge doesn’t have some kind of issue? I mean, I started this blog in a search for some kind of “truth” that there was simply no way for me to find. I used this blog, and face book, to take out my anger and frustration and pain over losing the one person that I love most in this whole world. I was so very frustrated over the way that the loss of this love caused me to feel every single day. Not one day would go by, probably not one single hour, where the pain of the loss would somehow bring itself into the forefront of my mind, and my reaction was typically and totally wrong and inappropriate. I have done a lot of soul searching, and since the posting of this original blog post, I have attempted to face my loss head on. What started out as a simple apology for being such a dick for so many months has somehow shifted into a very real possibility of “maybe”. I still say “maybe” because I have work to do, to prove myself *and* to provide what the love of my life wanted all along. I have to stop drinking, I have to provide the perfect geographical location, and I have to address all of the issues that caused so many problems throughout a relationship that lasted over 8 years, longer than any other in my entire life.
Now it would probably be a good idea for me to start reading all my crazy past posts because I’m sure there are some more really mean and hateful things sprinkled around in this blog. Of course I don’t remember some of them, I was drinking very heavily!!!
Dec 16th
I just couldn’t resist posting in the mood I was in today, or “this morning”. I have been going through some rather unusual emotional transitions, as I am forced to use hatred to overcome heartbreak.
There is no plain or simple explanation for the way that we humans feel emotion. It is so complex, so intricate. We are forced to seek out a “partner” because as mammals, we have this instinct to “breed” and to live with and eventually become monogamous with just one person. Yet, the way in which we think and feel cause us to find any reason to create conflict between each other while struggling to find “common ground”.
I used to consider myself a “ssbbw admirer”, but because of repeated traumatic events throughout my life, I am now forced to reconsider my own physical preference for the sake of maintaining what little sanity I have left. SSBBWs seem to have a lot in common between each other, because there is some deep seated sense of hypocrisy that goes on when it comes to the addiction to food versus the addiction to intoxicants. While I lived with someone who could not resist eating to the point of not being able to maintain simple hygiene, I was being condemned for drinking to the point of slight intoxication on a regular basis. If that wasn’t bad enough, the person who was eating themselves to death also insisted on getting high on weed at the same time.
I chose to stop smoking weed for the sake of passing a drug test because I wanted to get a “real job”, and I still had to sit back and watch as my life partner got high every day, multiple times a day. At the same time, if I chose to have a few drinks in the evening when I knew I didn’t have to drive anywhere, my partner would condemn me for drinking because of past traumatic experiences in her life.
Eventually, the drinking was an excuse for my ex to leave, but she had left before, in the most cruel and hurtful way possible. When she returned, she chose to come back not because she wanted to be with me, but because the situation she got into before sucked so hard. She only came back to me to hang out long enough to get “in” with yet another ssbbw who would hook her up with a much more convenient situation.
It’s ironic though, because while the ex claimed to want to live “on her own” and be “independent”, she still ends up living with a room mate and being dependent on someone in some way. Not only that, but when I see a more recent photo of the ex, she has gotten even fatter than she was when she was with me. This means that she is even more dependent on someone else, and all of the bullshit about me making her dependent on me is a crock of shit.
I can’t help but be just a tad bit offended when a current friend of her’s comes down on me for everything that I “did wrong” in my prior relationship when she is enabling my ex in such a way where my ex will eventually be even more dependent on someone, somewhere, anyone, anywhere but being with me.
I just wanted to write a quik note, while I was thinking about it, since I have to go to work in a few hours and I just couldn’t resist pointing out not only the hypocrisy of my ex, but the hypocrisy of the woman who enabled my ex and “took her in” for her own benefit. This is bullshit. I could give a fuck about my ex at this point, because she was not nearly as devoted to me as I was to her. I spent years taking care of her, and in return, I got shit on, abused, and abandoned.
Ok, here is another angry note, I will have to talk to the woman that inspired so much of my frustration to see how much she wants me to get rid of, and if any of it is of any use to anyone else who could use a lesson in stopping themselves from saying shit they will regret later!!!
Nov 20th
OMFG (1.11.12 update yet again). It’s time to do some housecleaning, but I don’t want to remove it all. Anyone who has seen it has seen it, and if they have yet to see it, and see that I am not “hiding” it or deleting it, they will realize deep down that I am trying to address the “character” stuck somewhere in my sub conscious that came up with this crap! This post is obviously from my “love hate contradiction self lie” phase…
Well it appears that the part of my personality who always knew there was no way to end up with a “happy ending” where a relationship with a “ssbbw” is concerned has finally won out. Logic and reason has replaced love and hope, rationality and reality has finally defeated fantasy and fetishism.
I used to get so offended when I would see morbidly obese women complain about fat fetishism in the size acceptance or fat acceptance movement, but now I understand more than ever. While I was guilty of having a “fat fetish” myself, I would attempt to justify it by saying to myself and to whoever would listen, “they are here, if they did not exist, I could not be physically attracted to them”. Now I understand more than ever that while they are here, more often than not, they really don’t want to be “here” as they currently exist. They want to be smaller, they want to be thinner, they want to be more independent, they want to be more agile, and they want to live a little longer beyond the age of 50 that so many death announcements take place in the fat acceptance movement.
It is no wonder why there is such resentment against the average “fat admirer” who openly proclaims his physical attraction to a “super size” woman or “ssbbw”. Those women who exceed the size of “32″ who are usually getting dangerously close to being 100lbs per foot of physical height. Not only are there serious physical limitations, but there is the constant overdose of dopamine and estrogen flooding their system because of the amazing about of fat tissue lining the inside of their entire body. The “fat admirer” or “fat fetishist” is seen as taking advantage of a big fat woman by being available to enable her extreme addiction to binge eating. While a lot of eating disorders that are talked about in popular media are “invisible” to the average person, being super sized makes one particular eating disorder obviously apparent, and it is seen as a sign of extreme weakness. Therefore, if a male or female admits openly to having such an attraction, they are automatically seen as flawed, sick, perverted, or otherwise demented beyond hope of ever being a normal participant in society.
When I first started this blog, I was overwhelmed at times by the extreme tragedy of any form of weight loss surgery. I saw it the same way a friend of mine has compared it to a lobotomy. An openly accepted procedure that is encouraged for the sake of ridding our society of the scourge of super fatness. I was later able to make a direct comparison between lobotomy and weight loss surgery due to an open discussion of how the stomach actually has it’s own brain, and that is most probably what is partially eliminated or at least somewhat cut off from the rest of the body during some forms of weight loss surgery. I was surprised to read that “95% of all serotonin in the body is in the gut, where it triggers digestion”. I have to wonder as well how the use of SSRI’s, or serotonin re uptake inhibitors are being prescribed at record levels, handed out even more quickly to our super sized members of society at the least hint of depression. Of course super sized people are going to be “depressed”! They hate the way they are, they hate being so fat, and they know just how physically limited they are and how dependent they can become in a traditional relationship.
This, combined with some particularly horrific past experience, all leads me to come to several new conclusions about my former devotion to all things super size and my fascination and fetishistic behavior where super sized women are concerned. First, my horrible experience in Orlando, where a woman I’ll call Alexis took advantage of my eagerness to “help” her in such a way that I would create my first successful ssbbw website only to have it taken away from me out of greed under circumstances that should have driven me completely insane way back then. I was lied to, used, manipulated, and then thrown away like so many candy wrappers in the trash bin of a 400lbs plus woman! I was not completely innocent, but the way that I was lied to and deceived so thoroughly and painfully forced me to come to the conclusion that I had finally found what even I would consider to be “too big” in a potential partner.
Having to literally bathe someone in the bed, do everything for her around the house, and then run a business while she sat online running the show taught me such a valuable lesson, but unfortunately, I had apparently not learned quite enough at that point. One day I have vowed to go into full detail about exactly what happened, even going so far as to take responsibility for the things that I did wrong and the ways in which I was guilty of not being as devoted to her as I could have been. I was overwhelmingly tempted, because of her massive size and limitations, to experience what it would be like to share intimacy with a smaller woman, who was still plus sized, but much more physically capable and of course easier to “maneuver” as my current girlfriend has asked me about.
“How did you maneuver her around?” “How exactly did you have sex with her?” “What positions were you actually able to have sex in?”. Those are a few of the questions that my current girlfriend who is well under 300lbs but very voluptuous would ask me as we lay together in the bed, staring into each others eyes, almost grateful for both of our prior heartbreak for the sake that it actually ended up bringing us together eventually. It’s no wonder that guys like myself who were formerly so obsessed with ginormous women are thought of as freaks of nature who must have something seriously wrong with them. The smaller “bbws” are prone to asking such questions, and even they seem to gain some kind of amusement by staring at and ridiculing those super size women who “wear the wrong things” or “show off what nobody normal wants to see”.
I recently had a relapse of “ex hatred” because of an email I received, asking me to be “friends” and proclaiming this alleged lie that she “still loves me”. Keeping the door open as usual, I had to come to the conclusion that my ex is literally “dead to me” and that there is no good reason to maintain any contact with her whatsoever, even for the sake of releasing my anger, resentment, and hatred towards her. I was reminded by a series of notes about the many ways in which I am responsible for my own heartbreak, not with just my actions, but with my choice and my failure to realize what I was getting into when i chose yet another relationship with someone who was coming dangerously close to that physical limitation of being “too big”.
I have been forced to not only shut that door on her, but shut the door on the entire realm of “super size” women as potential long term partners because I have been forced to make assumptions about their greed, selfishness, addiction, dependency, and their lack of devotion or loyalty. I have been told that I did “too much” for someone, making them dependent on me. The fact that I was gracious enough to do as much as I did has gone unappreciated, and instead it has been used to blame me for the “souring of the relationship”. I have been forced to reconcile the pure fact that living with a super size woman means having to take care of her at times and do things for her that I would not have had to do for a smaller bbw, and worse than that, my doing those things would cause an eventual and inevitable build up of resentment towards me in the end.
I take responsibility in making the wrong choice to allow yet another super sized woman to come live with and off of me, because as I have stated in a prior post, if she was willing to abandon her own flesh and blood, she would eventually and easily abandon me as well. I made a mistake in not only accepting her into my home and taking care of her, but I also made a serious mistake in allowing myself to become emotionally attached to her to the point of falling “in love” with her and devoting myself to her to the degree that I was willing to give her monogamy that she claimed she wanted, but chose to abandon within six months after the decision. I also take responsibility in the way that “models are not to be trusted” as well. Get the id and signed release, take some photos and video, pay them, and get them the hell out of your freaking house! The popular phrase “you can’t turn a ho into a housewife” comes to mind…
The anger, resentment, and hatred has finally re-surfaced within me not only because I was so hurt and emotionally devastated by the loss of my love, but also in the fact that I was stupid enough to fall for it not just once, but twice! I’ve probably written already about how one day out of the blue, as I was cooking some spaghetti for her, she suddenly and without warning informed me that she “couldn’t live with me” any longer. She was “sick of hearing my voice” and would “rather live under a bridge” than continue to live with me. This came without argument or provocation, and I was seriously hurt and I might even say “destroyed” with her admission. I had some serious issues in the last week we were together, since she had to book a flight an entire week after her saying she wanted to leave, and I had to not only give her a ride to the airport, but mail all her stuff to a trusted “good friend” she was going to live with out of state.
Well, within 4 months of her leaving, this “great friendship” didn’t turn out to be so great after all, and she started to write these emails talking about regret and missing me. Within hours of those emails, I was getting a phone call where she was saying she “made a mistake and wanted to come home”. I was so very stupid, so very ignorant, so vulnerable, and such an idiot! Within just six hours of when I would have been getting on a flight to meet up with a woman I had been talking to online, I was picking up the ex at the airport, unable to even start the drive home for at least a half hour as I cried holding her in the van once she was with me again. I was so happy to have her back, or so it seemed. There was still some hurt feelings about her leaving the way that she did, and there was some degree of guilt over my failure to make the plans that I had with a woman who I had talked to on the phone for the previous 2 months about coming to see her and potentially move in with her to be with her “forever”.
Any time that I would bring up my ex’s prior departure, she would start a fight instead of talking about my feelings. Any time that I asked for or needed assurance that I would not be abandoned again, I was insulted and brushed off. Any time I expressed doubt about her sincerity in coming back, or her devotion to the relationship, she would yell at me and accuse me of trying to make her feel guilty. There was never any real resolution, and I just shut up and accepted her treatment of me because I was still so happy to have her back. Things got worse though. Because she was obviously not with me out of a true desire to come back, she continued to get high on a daily basis while she cursed me for having a few drinks at the same time. She would start yelling at me for simply trying to carry on a conversation with her, at several times telling me to “shut the fuck up”.
There was one point as we laid in bed together that I made a comment about how hurt I was that she left me the way she did, and she physically pushed me out of the bed, leaving a bleeding scratch across my back in the process. I would push down my anger and tolerate it, again, being so mistakenly glad that she was back, appreciating her presence instead of realizing that she didn’t truly love me, and really didn’t want to live with me. I had become a “plan B” for a greedy, selfish, manipulative, and I would even say evil demon of a woman who would use and abuse me like I was one of the children she had previously abandoned. I was being tolerated, not loved, I was being abused, not assured, and I was taking it all every single day because I loved her so much and hoped so much that things would get better.
Of course they didn’t though. There was the eventual final conflict where she started a fight with me yet again, only this time I wasn’t even conscious. I was fast asleep, and I had mistakenly placed myself in an inconvenient position on the bed. Instead of simply pushing me off like she had previously, she chose to yell and scream at me while I slept, even provoking my physically with some minor irritation that I still can’t really even remember. I eventually did move alright, but not in the way that she had hoped. I finally stood up for myself, some sleeping version of my conscious finally so sick and tired of being mistreated in such a way that I lashed out and gave her one slap across the face. While she would have gotten off on this kind of thing while we were engaged in the type of sex she enjoyed, on this eventing, this action provoked her to a whole new level. She flew out of the bed, grabbing a frying pan ready to strike me down as I was still practically sleep walking.
I had to block her, holding her away from me as I attempted to defend myself in a way that I probably would not have if I had been fully awake and realizing what was happening. I would have let her do whatever she wanted to me if I was awake, as I had previously been allowing for so very long. This time was different though. The stakes were so high, I was about to spend all my savings to move to Vegas so she could get her medical weed and I could finally quit drinking because I could return to using an intoxicant that I had been using for the past 20 years but quit in an effort to make sure she always had more and I would not have to go out finding it quite as often.
After leaving, the ex would inform me that she had quit smoking weed, probably because the new master who took her in as their house slave would not allow it. The new master would preach sobriety, because like my ex, she had a negative experience in the past with an alcoholic family member, so intoxication was a strict no no… Of course, my ex would quit smoking weed right away for her, because while she wanted me to quit drinking, she never would have made such a sacrifice for me because she didn’t truly love me, she never could care about me the way that I cared about her. I would have quit drinking for her, if she had only ever provided the ultimatum of “quit drinking or I’m leaving”. Of course she never did though, because she realized that the addiction of getting high as well as stuffing her fat face almost constantly would have made her such a hypocrite.
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For whatever reason, my ex’s new female master has gone so far as to try and guilt trip me over making money on my ex’s image, even though my ex lived off of me for so very long and never worked or provided any other support to the household. I’m guessing that just because my ex was so very gigantic, she should never have been expected to work or contribute anything, and I was just supposed to support her any way that I could, merely accepting that if I was a big roly poly super sized woman to live with, there are dues to pay in addition to the awesome amount of work involved in doing things for her that she would later resent me for doing. I was supposed to stop making money from my ex’s image, even though my ex is “just another model that quit on me in the end”.
That’s right. My ex is just another model that QUIT ON ME. I don’t pay “residuals” to any ex models who quit, I never did. What’s more, my ex knows this very well. That is my work, that is my content, and while my heart is no longer in the webmastering game, I am financially trapped because I did create so much work, and I have no choice now but to use that work to make as much cash as I can while I continue to work a “normal job” as well.
My ex always wanted me “out of the house more”, to not only make more money, but so she could have “space” and her own “private time”. Unfortunately, my ex was emotionally incapable of offering the kind of support, encouragement, or mere inspiration I would be required to get back out of the house and deal with other people after devoting myself to her for so very long. I was laid off from my last full time job in 2004, and if my ex had not offered to participate in the website game, I would probably never have gone so deeply into it or depended so heavily on it. If my ex had not been so dependent on me, and so very lazy to allow me to provide every ounce of physical help that I gave to her, she would not have become “dependent” on me. Now my ex’s new master wants to blame me for the help I provided, for making her dependent, and I’m shocked and surprised that my ex’s eating addiction hasn’t been pinned on me too due to “enabling”.
Part of what may have contributed to my ex deciding to leave was the fact that occasionally, I would actually warn her about her consumption. I would remind her that I don’t want to be with a woman that I have to take complete and total care of like Alexis. I would try to inform her that I do have a limitation on what I consider is “too big” and her behavior was contributing to her rapid approach to becoming that size. Now I’m still to blame. This is why I refer to the love of a super size woman as a “no win situation” now.
I have even coined the term “queen shit syndrome” recently in an idle passing thought to describe the way in which ssbbws will thoroughly enjoy the attention and appreciation of fat admirers or “fat fetishists” while laughing at them behind their back, calling them freaks for finding them attractive, or wanting to take care of them and be in relationships with them. There was simply no way to be “the good guy” in that kind of a relationship, because if you don’t help a super size woman, your neglecting her. If you do help a super size woman, your making her dependent on you.
This is why, the combination of Alexis and my most recent ex has caused my “size limit” to drop even further, much much further in fact. If a big giant super sized woman wants to model for me, that’s fine. I’ll take the pics and video in a heartbeat. But. I will not give myself up so easily to someone of such massive proportions ever again, and more importantly, the kind of woman that I will consider for a possible relationship will be much different as well.
For example, my present girlfriend is well under 300lbs, and while she accepts me despite my prior experience, she still has no interest in participating in my website activity. She considers herself a “Christian” as well, making it even more ironic that she has an interest in being in a relationship with me at all. She is plus sized, and she is incredibly and amazingly voluptuous and beautiful, as well as being somewhat younger than I am, but unlike other younger women I’ve known, she’s not a “flake”. She’s devoted, kind, loving, faithful, and giving of her time, patience, and understanding. She’s unlike any woman I’ve ever known in the past, partially I believe because she is *NOT* “model material” and also because she is not well over 300lbs with a litter of brats and an agenda of being taken care of and/or supported. She has her own career, and she has inspired and motivated me to take more control in my life to go back to work and even seriously consider higher education as well. She has even made me begin to think that I could actually one day go back to church!
There is a real irony in the way that this relationship even started, because I was one of the only people she decided to meet who would follow her “no touching” rule, at least at first, until she was comfortable with me and didn’t feel like she was being physically molested. She is “top heavy” so she had gotten really used to guys who were obsessed with her large DDD breasts, and who would constantly grab and grope at them with no care or concern for how it made her feel. It’s so very ironic because the “fat porno guy” who didn’t think he was good enough was one of the only guys who was willing to listen to what she wanted instead of taking what I wanted. She has sacrificed her time, and I even worry that she sacrifices her very reputation by associating with me at all. I’m supposed to be the “bad guy” because of what I have done, and the extreme hatred and anger that I seem to thoroughly enjoy unleashing on my ex.
That will stop though. I believe that I have finally closed the door on my ex to the degree where she will stop any attempt to “be friends” or “ask for forgiveness”. I know very well that it’s probably part of her bullshit therapy to ask forgiveness of those she has wronged, but there is too much pain at this point, and I have suffered way too much for way too long to be sincere about forgiveness or have any desire whatsoever to be “friends” with someone who hurt me, betrayed me, and lied to me the way that she did. I will fully and totally accept any accusations that I “used” her or continue to “use” her, because frankly, I fucking deserve it after what I have been through with her. I have suffered emotional devastation not just once, but twice because of this evil bitch, and she would be lucky if I could forgive her even after I rejoiced at word of her expiration.
After unleashing on her and her new master I only felt the slightest tinge of regret after my girlfriend came over and held me, giving me goosebumps just from her touch and her kiss. She has been so patient with me, and even she has told me that I need to just “cut it off”, just like my friend Mark would have told me to “nip it” during my ex’s first departure and my heartbreak and crying back then. I have cried for the last time for her or the ending of that relationship. I still have a long ways to go before I can ever even consider forgiveness, but I have been hurt so badly, and been talked about and misunderstood to such a degree by now that there are times when I fantasize about being the biggest anti super size troll on all of the internet or all of the world for that matter.
Maybe I am by now. This blog has evolved from a perspective of compassion and an attempt at acceptance and understanding, to a statement of intolerance and indictment of anyone who chooses to consume food rather than show real emotion to other people. While I have been reminded at times that my consumption of alcohol makes me an “addict” and “dysfunctional”, I can at least go to work, contribute to society, and reach parts of my body necessary to maintain proper hygiene. I have finally allowed fat admirer guilt to show me the truth, and show me that there is no way to be compassionate towards people who hate themselves and resent other people for admiration and enabling of their behavior. I have only come to these conclusions and emotionally evolved in this way because villains are made, not born.
I cannot and will not ever again expect to meet a super size woman who can be giving of herself when she is so greedy and selfish with her food. I can’t accept being condemned for my occasional use of alcohol by the very people who cripple themselves physically with the use of food, then depend on the rest of society to take care of them and pay their way. I have to work for a living, as I always have, and even if part of my work involved using someone’s image to make money, I was still contributing to society, the economy, and paying taxes instead of sucking on the government tit of social security and medicaid.
If I was ever “abusive” in the past, I was merely responding to neglect and abuse being perpetrated on me. While no form of abuse is acceptable when going in the direction of male to female, there are some people who will understand the relationship dynamic of “dominance and submission” and realize by some of my past content that violence was part of my ex’s sexual satisfaction. If anything, there are times I realize that technically, I didn’t abuse her *enough* to keep her happy, or even “keep her in line”. I let her run wild, eating whatever she wanted, supporting whatever she wanted, and at times, asking her permission to obtain the one intoxicant I wanted to use because I had to obtain and watch her use an intoxicant that I loved so dearly but gave up for her.
It is unfair to assume that “all super size women are fucked in the head”, but I just had a talent for picking the ones that were, so it’s very very difficult for me to think otherwise at this point. I was forced to give up immobile women because of my experience in Florida, and now I am forced to give up those women who begin to approach about 75lbs for each pound of height. I could probably calculate a “BMI” for those exact proportions, but for now, I want to quit writing and do something that might make some money.
I am so lucky at this point to have even found a job, with the economy in the shape it’s in, and not only that, I had to turn down one and take the other. Not only was I able to get a job, but I had to choose between two. I could have done that so very long ago, if I had only been with a “good woman” who supported me emotionally and encouraged me and inspired me the way in which my much smaller new girlfriend has. It’s no wonder that I cannot let myself go back to super size. I simply can’t take it emotionally. I have given so much of myself emotionally that I have nearly lost myself and my very sanity, so now I feel that if I’m going to be in a relationship with a woman at all, she has got to have her shit together like my new girlfriend does.
She works, she supports herself, she is devoted to her family and friends, and she has shown me more intimacy and love in a few weeks than I feel I received in over six months with my ex. My ex writes me wanting “friendship” but she didn’t even know how to give it when she was here, so I had to let her know that she had some damn nerve asking for it now.
My new girlfriend is a Christian, and she is so very patient and understanding with me that after I talked to her about an inability to forgive my ex, she had to inform me that she still can’t completely forgive an ex from over two years ago in her past.
Again, I will totally accept the anger, resentment, and hatred of anyone who finds objection with my ability to make money off the image of those fat women from my past, but I find it so ironic that fat women and fat admirers in the fat acceptance movement bitch about fat porn almost more than feminists bitch about all porn. I guess fat women are so insecure and desperate because they hope to make admirers dependent upon them more than they seem to be dependent on their admirers…
I’m sure there are some guys out there who would think my ex was the “perfect partner”. No kids, SSI income, really good at eating the cock. But… She abandoned her kids, she got help getting on SSI from someone she left, and her cocksucking becomes a habit that only provides something more to miss when she eventually and inevitably abandons anyone who loves her. Bye bye supersize, hello fat admirer guilt…
By the way, just so I’m not a hypocrite, I did participate in giving up 2 bio kids for adaption at birth, but I didn’t wait until they were old enough to become thoroughly attached and vividly remember being abandoned like some people. This is why I’m sick and tired and thoroughly disgusted with each attempt of my ex to say that she “still loves me”. With that kind of love, you need a pack of razor blades, a big bottle of pills, a big bottle of booze, an extension cord and a bathtub full of fucking water! lol Just to add a little insult to injury, she waits until she’s living thousands of miles away from them before trying to stalk them online too. Sick fuck… And I’m the “bad guy”. I was loyal, devoted, and in love deeper than ever before in my life. She once told me after coming back the second time that she “got off” on seeing how hurt I was on facebook. Never again… I should have remembered to include her razor blades in the box of crap I was stupid enough to mail to her!
Nov 12th
I seem to have a lot of rage and anger and hate going on. It’s all directed at one person, giving me a vivid memory of what it felt like when I first drove away from Orlando, FL. to get away from a crazy bitch that tried to ruin my life in ways I never imagined. It seems like just yesterday now, when I had to escape one of the worst relationships of my life, pissed off because I had to give up my work and a few websites that I had poured myself into so fully. Now, this time around, I get to keep my work and the websites, but I don’t seem to really want to look at it. I especially don’t seem to want to look at one of my ssbbw subjects in particular.
Back when I left Florida, I didn’t really like the woman I was running away from. In fact, I never thought she was very attractive, more like what you might call a “bagger” in the way that I could only get aroused by her if I tried really hard not to look at her face and focus on her ginormous body. Now this time around, I spent almost a decade with a woman who I thought was beautiful and sexy from head to toe, inside and out. I had fallen wholly and completely in love, never wanting to be with another woman, not even being tempted to “cheat” or lie or screw around. In fact, I had decided that I would only photograph this one special woman, and I would pour myself into taking care of her so fully that I would lose myself in the process. I would finally allow myself to trust and love someone more than I felt I had ever loved anyone in my life. I would give myself fully to her, hoping that she would be the last woman I would ever experience a relationship, even fantasizing that I might be lucky enough to die first just so I would never have to experience losing her.
As luck would have it, just six months after I made my open proclamation to her that I wasn’t going to be interested in any other woman, she decided to leave. It wasn’t a big fight, it wasn’t even expected. One night after returning from a local grocery store, as I prepared dinner as I usually did, the woman just came out and told me rather bluntly that she couldn’t take living with me. She went further and started to tell me some of the harshest, most cruel things that I could have heard from the one woman I loved more than anyone in the world. She would say things like “I would rather live under a bridge than live with you”, and “I can’t stand the sound of your voice any more”, and “I can’t take being your whole world”. This all came just six months after I finally decided to carry on a traditional monogamous relationship with her.
I had to wonder after she left if things would have been better if I would have just kept on searching for models so that she could have her “space” when I was gone working with them. I believe she would have preferred for me to go out and get some kind of job, even though there were times when she needed me around to do things for her that she could not even do for herself. What made matters worse was the way in which she wasn’t even leaving me for another guy. She would take off to live with some “good internet friend” who she knew almost as long as me, but had only spent about one to two weeks with at a time before this all happened.
Of course that fell apart, and after a few months she was on the phone with me crying to come back because it sucked where she was, and she was no longer being taken care of in the way that she had gotten used to. She would come back to me claiming that she would never leave again, that she would love me forever, and that I should not “let her leave”. Less than two weeks after her return though, she started a big fight, and then every few weeks after she would pull something that would cause some kind of conflict. It got kind of weird when she started getting physical with me, pushing me out of the bed, and yelling and screaming at me with some kind of rage every time I said something she didn’t agree with or that didn’t fit in with her little fantasy of what life should be like with me.
I did love her, more than anything or anyone in the world, but she made it really hard for me to keep my cool. The things she would do and say after coming back were spiteful, mean, inconsiderate, and showed a complete lack of patience and understanding for what I went through when she hurt me so deeply the first time she left. She would only stay around for another six months, that magic amount of time that she could tolerate me, before she found some other online female friend to move in on. This time would be different though. This time, she would choose a woman who made some kind of strange habit out of taking in these super sized women, two at a time, for up to a year or more at a time. The woman she would move to this time made it a point to make everything as perfect as possible for such a huge ssbbw to exist as pleasantly as possible.
Five more months would pass after this woman left me, and as luck would have it, I began to realize what a blessing her second departure may have turned out to be. While it was hard at first to imagine losing someone that I cared about so much, I started to realize that it took me years to get used to her size and shape combination. While I used to think she was so “perfect”, the longer she was gone, and the more I experienced without her present, I started to realize that things were not as perfect with her as I wanted to believe. Besides the bitchy way that she acted most of the time, there were also several physical considerations that hadn’t really occurred to me until I met up with another massive super sized woman that would remind of of just how physically awkward and difficult being that size really was.
When I left Florida, I realized I had finally figured out what “too big” meant. I had spent most of my life chasing after super sized women, never really thinking much about it, hoping to find one that I was compatible with just enough to be able to even fall in love with. It took years for me to fall in love with the one that I lived with for so long, and now I realize why. She was a miserable freaking sack of shit most of the time! She was lazy, self absorbed, selfish, greedy, needy, and she acted like the things I did for her were a favor to me instead of her. I would do practically everything for her, and instead of being grateful, I was actually made to feel guilty, as if I was making her dependent on me. It was some sick, twisted game where I had to be punished for doing so much for someone else because they felt guilty and helpless for needing the help that I provided.
I have since started to realize the futility of this whole ssbbw game, and now that I have been fortunate enough to spend a considerable amount of time with a smaller bbw, I realize that I had limited myself so severely that I really did trap myself in this strange little world of fetish and perversion. As I started to look around and scour the locals to see if there was even one ssbbw candidate, I realized a few things. First, they all had freaking kids. Unless I could find one that was old enough for her kids to be adult and grown and out of the house, I would always be stuck or saddled with some crazy big fat bitch who was mean as hell and had a bunch of brats to deal with to boot. Even the woman I thought I loved so much had a few kids, but she happily abandoned them to come to me.
When she first left her own children to come live with me, I felt guilty for giving her the option or opportunity of doing so. I actually felt really badly and responsible for causing this woman to abandon her own children. I tried to take her back because of it, but within a few short months, she was working her way right back into my place, living with me, living off of me, and taking full advantage of my inability to resist her physical form and her extremely sexual personality. Her willingness to participate in my little website adventure didn’t hurt either, because she didn’t work, she didn’t bring in any money at all, and for the first 6 years that we lived together, her only contribution was the fact that she allowed me to do all the work in taking photos, editing video, and figuring out every piece of software that I had to figure out in order to create everything that was created.
After her second departure, I was the “bad guy” because of the way things went down, only because she never bothered to clearly tell the truth about what actually happened that last night. Eventually it came out, and eventually people began to understand that it was a two sided issue not just my “fault”. Before that realization though, I was being messed with because occasionally I would get loaded and write an angry email which would draw a negative and sometimes mildly threatening response. I try very hard to avoid that these days, but it seems as though I no longer need to be intoxicated to express my hatred and anger at the one person who hurt me more than anyone else ever in my life. Now the slightest provocation draws amazing and incredible meanness and hatred out of me as if I am confronting someone who tortured me for a year.
I should have known, from the very beginning, that if someone could abandon blood relatives that they should have loved more than me, I would eventually suffer the same fate. I should have realized, and maybe I did, that eventually I would be hurt and emotionally scarred just as badly as the kids left behind or the family that were left to die without care or concern. I might have known because I did try to stop it. Way back, years ago I tried hard to stop it. If I could have gotten away from this person, I may have been able to find someone else who wasn’t quite as fucked up, who didn’t have a litter of rug rats, or who was at least mature, loyal, and devoted enough to make my fantasy of having a true genuine relationship forever happen finally in my life.
Now I have had this experience of feeling a deeper emotional connection to a woman who is actually under 300lbs. Not by much, but still well under what my previous “lower limit” would have been. It doesn’t hurt that she is very voluptuous, with an amazing figure and the “DDD’s” up top, but at the same time, she is nowhere near the physical stature as every woman I have ever been in a long term relationship with before. I don’t have some kind of twisted fantasy of trying to “grow” her either, because she has had some physical issues that cause her to want to get smaller instead of larger. I have no illusions that she would ever participate in my web projects because she doesn’t share her image in the way that every woman I’ve known in the past was somewhat willing to do.
I wonder myself how I could have started to fall in love with a woman who would never allow me to create the same kind of content that I did with me ex, but then something occurs to me. The woman that I have begun to feel deeply for is not “that type”. The type of woman who has given up her image so easily never would have been so devoted, never would be so patient, never would be so understanding, so compassionate, so loyal, and so willing to look beyond all of my eccentricities in order to really get to know the real me. If she wasn’t willing to share her image with the world, she also wasn’t willing to share a part of herself that she only wants to share with me. I’ve told her myself already that if she was that “easy”, then she would never be as loyal to me as she has been. She never would have given me the time with her that she has. She never would have shared the unique and special intimacy with me that she has.
I have begun to understand relationships and attraction in a whole different way. This woman gave me clothes that an ex who hurt her used to own, even though she didn’t want to be reminded of him if she were to see me wearing them. She did this because she tried so hard to encourage me to do something that I myself never thought I would pull off so easily, which is actually getting a job working for someone else. She has encouraged me to not only go back to work, as difficult as it was to find and obtain a job, but she has also encouraged me to stop or at least cut down seriously on the drinking. She makes me want to be better, and she might even be a little bossy about it at times, but maybe that was just what I needed. My ex never had the strength or willpower to resist certain things herself, therefore as much as she hated my drinking, she still enabled it in order to continue to get away with everything that she got away with.
It was so difficult for me to imagine giving up drinking the way that I did when I had to sit back and watch her getting high herself. It’s particularly ironic that once she left, she would tell me that she stopped getting high and I should stop drinking. My response to that was to question why she couldn’t stop getting high and help me stop drinking. My logical conclusion to that is the fact that she just didn’t love me enough to give up or sacrifice anything for me, even though I was perfectly willing to sacrifice so much for her. I asked her permission to buy vodka that last night she was with me, and she granted it because I was feeding her food addiction and providing her with her favorite intoxicant. She simply couldn’t tell me no, even though I needed and deep down I wanted her to do so. She was weak, and she was too manipulative to come out and tell me what I needed to do to keep her happy and keep her around. She was too big of a leech and a liar to just tell me that she wasn’t happy with me, she would never be happy with me, and she only came back to me because the alternative sucked so hard.
I have been able to get over my former love for her, but unfortunately, the love has turned into a kind of hate that will not go away so quickly or easily. I know that eventually it will fade, just like my hatred of the woman in Florida faded over time. I know that I will eventually feel nothing at all for her, even when I occasionally have the freaky nightmares about her or I am forced to use her image to continue to try to use my very own work to at least attempt to make some extra cash doing what used to support both me and her for almost ten years. I will not feel the least bit guilty over using her image, because I paid long and hard for that fucking image. I supported her for over six years when she didn’t contribute anything but that image. I did most of the work, and in the last few years, I did all of the work. All she had to do was sit there in front of the camera and stuff her face, which she would have done with or without the camera anyway.
Now that I’m seeing someone who is so different, I’m seeing things in a different way, because I’m finally starting to see what it would be like to be with a strong, independent woman who doesn’t need to guilt trip her lover because she is incapable of doing anything for herself. Now I can imagine how the woman who made me feel guilty for doing so much for her is simply getting someone else to do the same things that I used to do. I can laugh when I think about how she and others around her imagine that she will eventually become independent, because they don’t know her like I do, and she will always need to use other people to take care of herself because she is so fucked up.
I did lose myself in that relationship. I became so used to someone being there that I started to forget how to take care of myself without taking care of someone else. When the person I took care of left, I lost control and started to self destruct as hard as I could, but I could not even do that right. Now as much as I hate it, I have to go back to work, and while it sucks, at least it reminds me that I can do it, I will do it, and eventually I will be rewarded for all of the pain and the heartbreak I have had to experience.
Even now, I just got off the phone with the smaller woman who has inspired and motivated me so much, and it feels so good to hear her tell me when she will be with me again and she will spend the night, and we will hold each other and tell each other how much we love each other when we fall asleep and wake up next to each other. In a weird kind of way, now I actually have to be kind of grateful for the ending of my prior relationship. I was being pushed and pressured into making an out of state move that I really didn’t want to make for the sake of making someone else happy. If we had moved, and the economy would have gone down the toilet like I suspected it would, we would have been in serious financial trouble, and the stress and pressure of that would have probably caused the same eventual outcome. If she was so willing to leave me so easily before the move, she would have eventually done it after the move, and that would have fucked me so very hard that now her departure is actually a blessing to me.
It kind of feels good to get this out of my system, because I have spent a few moments of every day since she left in some weird phase of this grief process. At first it was heartache, longing, and pain, but now it’s anger, resentment, and hate. I look forward to the day when the hate fades and turns into complete disregard. I really look forward to a time when there is just no emotional response to her at all. I know it will happen, because eventually it even happened with the Florida woman, and before my recent ex, that was the worst thing I had experienced in my life. Now things have started to turn around, and for every set back there is some strange and unexpected bonus or plus that seems to come out of the woodwork. I actually had to choose between two potential jobs when there are millions of people out there who can’t find even one. I had more cash coming in then I expected, and I have managed to stay at a point financially that I honestly didn’t think I would be at. I have my own place, still have a working vehicle, have a job, and still have my online income going. I have the love of a really good woman who really cares about me instead of needing me because she’s got to use someone. I’ve got the motivation to do all of this and continue, while my ex wishes she had “her own place” but she can’t have it because she never has had to work for it and she won’t be able to now.
It’s ironic, because I don’t even have to hate the ex. Everything she wants I get, and because she hurt me so badly and wasn’t honest with me about her feelings, I will continue to benefit in every single way that she wishes she could but she never will. She will always live “with” someone simply because she wants to live “on her own” so badly. She will always be dependent on someone else even though everything I did for her was used to make me feel guilty for making her “dependent”. She will always suffer in ways that I will not, and for that reason, I might even one day turn from hate to some mild form of pity, but probably not. It’s ironic because I have spent months wishing I could die, and she wants to live, but I will probably outlive her, just like the horrible, evil woman from Florida who last fucked me over so badly.
Sep 21st
Oh man. I did it again. I got on the computer expecting to work on a website that had been badly neglected, and because I was slowly getting loaded, I made a detour to the very last place I should have gone! I subsequently got so loaded that before I knew it, I had completely abandoned my prior plans of doing some constructive work and I ended up going into insane rambling mode. I remember some of it, and what I do remember is pretty severe, so I can only imagine the worst of it!
I have had such a mixed up set of emotions running so strongly through me for the past 4 months, and at different times during the distress, I was getting blitzed out of my mind on my nasty vodka and kool aid mixture. I couldn’t sleep for 2 days, which made it worse because if I couldn’t pass out after drinking, I would experience the dreaded hangover phase while sobering up. As a result, I pretty much stayed loaded for the 2 days and finally wore myself out with that craziness I was doing online.
I’ve kind of figured it out though, what was going on and how to stop that cycle from constantly repeating. I’m sure that I’m blasted the hell out of the forum that I messed up and posted in, so that kind of fixes that, but I also shudder to think about what I was doing on facebook at the same time. After finally passing out and getting sleep, I woke up sober but feeling the damage from those 2 days of nearly constant alcohol consumption. It took almost a whole day of laying around to get over that, and once I was up to it, I finally did the work that I had intended on doing in the first place.
Working without drinking actually felt good for once, but it was just a simple website update. I still have much more work to do while the last remaining days of this month tick away without having done half of the stuff I wanted to get done. I’ve been inspired once again to stop drinking and pour myself into work instead, both by the regret of unleashing the drunk asshole version of myself onto the internet, and by seeing where I’m at financially due to my prior neglect. I’m still ok, and a little better off than I thought I would be after screwing around so much, but at the same time, I’m not where I want to be, and not where I know I could be.
Odds are I’ll end up getting drunk at least a few more times eventually, but it’s probably going to be from drinking a six pack (or half if I can summon control) instead of drinking that freaking nasty vodka! It’s really ironic that I can’t stand the taste of hard booze but I can push it down for the sake of the numbness that it brings with it. The problem is the way I always feel when it wears off, and the simple rules of this reality dictate that it will wear off and run out. Then there is the one to two day struggle with a craving for it, and then there is some emotional low that pushes me to give in. At this point, I would rather wean myself off than quit completely, but I have to switch to occasional beer instead of getting even one more bottle of vodka. I had gotten to the point where I could consume about 10oz of it at a time, sometimes almost doubling that if I was really on a heavy binge.
It seems that my previous limit of 4 or 5 ounces in the last few hours of an evening had been completely abandoned. If I had it, I would wake up and be drinking within a few hours, and then continue all day. I can just imagine what it was doing, because I would always feel like my brain was fried after one of those all day binges. If it wasn’t so late right now I would probably continue working on something, but I feel like I have to see how difficult it will be to actually go to sleep without getting loaded after waking up from passing out loaded. The 2 days without sleep happened while drinking, but I was also coming off of antidepressants which I have figured out I can’t handle. I had actually gotten the bottles mixed up because of the generic drug names, and I was popping an antidepressant thinking it was an antihistamine. That did not work out too well. The timing could not have been worse! What a freak out that was.
You know it’s sad when everyone you know starts telling you that you should “get help”. I’m harmless, except to myself at times, and I don’t even have the balls to fulfill the fantasies of ending everything and giving up. At the same time, I am still able to go days without eating, or at least eat every other day and then only eat a tiny amount of something at that time. I have gotten so used to not eating every day that when I get my hands on food, it’s not even that appealing. I’ve had 2 “mcdouble” hamburgers for days, not even remembering exactly when I got them because I picked them up on the way back from a vodka run. I have to start getting used to sleeping at night again because I have at least one appointment coming up soon that I really shouldn’t miss.
I think I was compelled to write this just so I would stay away from any forums (that i can still get into) and even avoid facebook for a while. I think it kind of helps. I can think this stuff through without bothering anyone else, since I know that so very few people must even read this. I can also relieve at least some of my regret by admitting that I know what an arrogant jerk I can be when I get that loaded. It might not even take getting that loaded come to think about it! I really can be a total asshole at times, even without booze, but when I’m sober I at least keep it in check. When I start getting loaded I just let it all out. It’s ironic that in person, I’m actually just talkative but still polite when drunk. Online though, I’m just letting my fingers do the walking without much thought at all to consequence or opinion. I’ve probably been under at least some influence for several of my previous blog posts, and I wish I would have put some notation on those blog posts I’ve written while drinking at all. I would not have categorized them all under “drunk blogging” either because I would not have felt “drunk” even though I bet I sure as hell would not have gotten into a car to drive!
It’s really ironic to me that there are a few people online who somehow get a degree of entertainment from even my most obnoxious moments, and some of the most entertaining phone calls I’ve had recently probably involved me having a few drinks before they happened. It felt good to finally clean up the apartment though, as sad as it was for me to have thrown away all the various food packaging that I was going to use for a photo project. It was just too much clutter, and it was probably the most physical activity I’ve had since this whole break up ordeal first started. Several trips to the dumpster, tossing not only the flattened food packaging, but also several “junk” items that I had left laying around for months. Just going through all the mail I had left sitting around was satisfying, even though I only kept very little of it because most of it was junk mail too. I must have taken out five shopping bags full of junk in addition to the food packages. I looked over all that food packaging and I was amazed at how much of it there even was. I had to wonder how long it would even take me to accumulate that much now that eating has become somewhat “optional”.
I still don’t have visible “abs” yet, but my “love handles” are almost completely gone, and I can almost see what looks like a trace of an abdominal vein that I never noticed before. My older clothes don’t only “fit” again, but have become somewhat loose. I gave up the only scale I had, but I’m sure that I’ve probably lost over 20lbs in 4 months, maybe more. It really is ironic that I am so attracted to “super obese” women and I was obsessed with studying obesity in it’s history, and now I have figured out how to “become anorexic”. It’s not something that I could easily describe though, because it was a process that involves some degree of depression, anxiety, anger at times, and a feeling that if I can control food intake, I will also be able to control the craving for alcohol and nicotine. In a way, I’m actually spending less on those two things than I used to on food. With the booze, as much as efficiently as I can consume it, I still have a “budget” for it. It’s going to take a higher level of cheapness for me to cut it down even more. Booze is relatively cheap after all, but if I were to consume it constantly at the rate that I’m capable, I would spend twice as much on it as I do now.
It’s such a weird process that I go through, spending 2 to 3 days sober and working only to experience some emotional low point and end up giving in to the “3 days off” that picking up a bottle of vodka will seem to induce. I think about it, and every time I buy it, I assume that I will keep it under control “this time”. When I have it though, I’ll think to myself “let’s just have a few” and a few turns into a binge. I know very well that it’s a problem, because all the years that I have spent having a few drinks here and there I never would go so far and do it so constantly. The process is weird, but so am I though. I don’t feel “dependent” on alcohol because I use it as an escape from a low point that is not caused by simple mere sobriety. I still don’t even like the taste of it. I never really liked beer that much either, but I can maintain at least some control of consumption if I only pick up a six pack at a time. Beer is interesting too because of the sheer volume you have to consume to get the same effect. All that peeing!
What’s really wild is that when I don’t drink, I’ll end up consuming almost a gallon of water over the course of the day, substituting the intoxicant for a flush. I still can’t believe the effect that the antidepressant had, but then again, I didn’t plan on drinking once I started taking those. I just can’t handle the one I was given though, it did some really strange stuff and I could totally relate to the long list of side effects that are always given in those commercials. I wasn’t even on them long enough for them to “take affect”, but the time that I did spend taking them started to do some strange shit! I even had what felt like my taste change, which further added to a lack of desire to eat.
Wow, this ended up being longer than I thought it would be! I just wanted to spend a few minutes cursing myself out for drunk forum posting, and I end up getting into this long rant about drinking and intoxication. I know I’ll get a grip on it and control it, but I’ve just been giving into it and letting myself go for a while as I spent the last few months grieving a loss that I didn’t think I could get over at times. I don’t know if I’ve finally burned it out or what, experiencing it so strongly and suffering so badly and then running cycles of self destruction. Or, maybe I’m just finally reaching a period of time where those low points are going to get further and further apart, making it easier to get more work done without crashing every time I have to look at a certain website or photos and video clips of a certain individual.
I don’t think that my issues are limited to simple depression though. It’s what I was “diagnosed” with at one point, but I have such extremes of highs and lows. There are times when I’m egotistical, arrogant, and super confident, and then there are times when I’m fragile, vulnerable, and hurting so badly I want to just leave this place entirely. I’m starting to finally realize though that the impulse moment that leads to me buying booze ends up leading to an eventual and inevitable crash later though as well. Even after running out of booze and passing out, waking up the next day will sometimes lead to another low point that is worse than the moment the decision was made to get the booze to begin with. You can’t really be told that and believe it though, because I’ve had a few people, seasoned alcoholics try to tell me about it and I just blew it off. I realize and understand it now though, and as a result, I’m currently in a mood where I’m relieved and satisfied with getting some work done, and I’m eager to get rest and go right back to it. I’ll get to see if there is a really strong “addiction mechanism” at work within me when I hit the 3 day point without drinking and see if one of those negative impulses tries to trick me into hitting the vodka again.
It really is nasty too. I never enjoyed the taste of any kind of alcohol, and I was a smoker so I used to just be satisfied with only occasionally doing that. The drinking does seem to pull you right in eventually though, especially when there is some emotional trauma that makes it’s home in a part of your brain that you can’t just “turn off”. I still can’t help but associate this same kind of behavior with food addiction too though. If I have food in front of me, I’ll eat it, but if I have to cook it or prepare it, I would rather just drink water instead. I know that my lack of a desire to eat also stems from the fact that I have associated food with relationships, and even that simple reminder probably contributes to my lack of an appetite. I also still have this lingering fantasy about being skinnier than I currently am for whatever reason. A contributing factor has got to be my “opposites attract” theory though. Ok, that’s about it, for now. I would not have even logged in here to post if I hadn’t done that update though. I’m probably going to do a back to back update again tomorrow as well, and edit a video clip because it has already been too long since I did the last one. Since the economy crapped out, sales aren’t as high with each clip addition, so I’m going to have to force myself to work harder and work more on that as well. I’ve known what I have needed to do all this time, but it was surprisingly difficult for me to motivate myself, at least until now. I guess you do get tired of hurting and eventually something just clicks.
Aug 15th
I could not resist posting about a song that I heard on “breaking bad” last night.
Just try to search google for “ana tijoux 1977″
When I first tried, there were literally no results…. just “one” google result.
now, the next day, all the sudden there are About 79,900 results
Aug 13th
I’m actually going to write a little, I so rarely do it now, because there are other things that are much more pressing right now. I kept going back and rehashing and analyzing my prior relationship, and I believe that I really did have a much larger part of it’s eventual failure now than I understood before.
I realize that I wanted to blame alcohol, or blame drug use, or blame someone else for not loving me as deeply as I loved them, but the more I think about it, the more I realize that I caused someone to slowly lose respect for me because of my occasional habit of “locking up” or experiencing anxiety.
I know that both me and my prior partner would immediately point to alcohol first and foremost, but the more that I have thought about it, the more I realize that alcohol was a secondary problem. I have started to feel as if my primary issue was anxiety. I have yet to seek out the professional help that I probably should have gotten months or even years ago, but it’s because I have had a constant habit of self medication.
Decades ago, when I would experience a little anxiety or depression, I turned to weed. I used it for so long, that over time, I never really gave much thought to why it comforted me the way that it did. It wasn’t until the weed started to create yet another anxiety that I started to turn to alcohol. Unfortunately, alcohol is a completely different animal, a substance that I’ve recently been told has a way of causing progressively worse and worse abuse of it.
At first, it would just be a few drinks in the evening. I would go the whole day totally sober, doing all of the things that I had to do in order to keep everything running smoothly, and then when I knew I would not have to drive I would have a few drinks. I never really thought it was much of a problem, until the first departure of my prior partner. When she left, I went wild with it, drinking every night, but starting earlier and earlier in the day. I had a neighbor who was really supportive because he saw how heartbroken I was by the departure of the woman I loved more than anyone else I ever know.
Unfortunately, he was also a pretty bad influence. He would encourage me to drink beer with him, and he would constantly warn me that using stronger alcohol like vodka was something that I had to watch out for. It’s also unfortunate that my habit of being cheap would lead me to believe that beer was more expensive than vodka in the long run, because the kind of intoxication I felt I wanted would require a much more costlier amount of beer than vodka. Because of that, I would let him have his beer and I would usually run up and down the stairs to make a drink when I felt like drinking.
Over time, I was compelled more and more often to get more and more intoxicated, because at certain times in the evening an old familiar anxious feeling would return, and alcohol would pretty much numb it out. This was a very bad habit to get into. I still managed to keep it under control to some degree though, because I was fortunate enough to have an opportunity to make friends with a woman who enjoyed talking to me almost every night for the second and third month after I lost the woman I often refer to as the “love of my life”.
I’ve written before about how after about three and a half months, I got an unexpected email from the prior partner encouraging me to talk by voice. I was surprised and shocked, since I was quite sure that she never wanted to talk to me again. We talked about what was going on where she was at, and at some point she started to say that she had made a mistake, and she wanted to return.
Without hesitation, I went all out to make that happen. Because of one unfortunate accidental wrong number, I called the house instead of her cellphone, and when I talked to her room mate, my obnoxious and condescending attitude came out because I felt like my prior partner had been misled and betrayed by the invitation to come there in the first place. This caused even more urgency for my ex to come back, because my tone infuriated her room mate, and therefore my ex was highly encouraged to leave as soon as possible.
I’ve already written all this out probably half a dozen times, but I am practicing some attempt at keeping a timeline going instead of wandering off into some convoluted train of constant consciousness that I have a bad habit of doing. But, I digress.
Upon the return of my ex, I should have realized how hard the decision was for her. She seemed so certain the way she left the last time that she had fallen out of love with me, and that she could not stand to live with me any longer. I was so drawn to her that I failed to take into consideration how difficult it must have been to live with me for her to have made such a drastic decision in the past.
Within days of her return, we would have our first pretty major fight, and it was about alcohol. I believe that I had become so anxious by my insecurity about her leaving again that I steadfastly refused to stop drinking. I wasn’t getting outright plastered every night, because I had work to do, and with the return of my ex I sincerely wanted to try to please her. I didn’t realize though just how dependent I had become on some substance to ease my anxiety and my fear of losing her again.
There were little signs here and there that she may have had regret about her decision as well. She was irritable, easily upset, and unable to show the kind of restraint that I was struggling with on an almost daily basis. It was because of how attached I was that I didn’t stop to realize that the more I held myself back from expressing myself, the more serious that eventually expression would eventually be. I have started to really understand what was going on. Instead of dwelling in depression, I have to accept a sense of relief in the way that things turned out for her. I have to actually stop being selfish and obsessive enough to appreciate the way in which things may have turned out exactly the way they were supposed to. For all I know at this point, my anxiety driven passion to work and to actually accomplish something may have needed this kind of emotional push.
I was sad about the passing of a family member, but I think back and realize that I never even truly expressed my real sadness until I was so upset about the loss of someone else that I was closest to in the whole world. The more I think about it, the more I realize that I may have felt depressed at different times because for whatever reason, I was unable to really let it out all at once. There were just a few times when I actually broke down and cried in front of my prior partner, and every time it happened, I felt so much better about the way things were and even more grateful for what I have.
As I look around me and see the emotional and financial devastation of other people I actually bother to talk to, I have to feel better about my situation. One of my neighbors has just suffered consequences from a bad decision that has a very real parallel to my previous good decision. I don’t want to get too personal when talking about “friends and neighbors” because for all I know, one of them might actually end up reading this thing at some point and give me hell about it. I will say that he neglected to do something for years that I took care of and had actual regret for doing at one point because it wasn’t easy, and it wasn’t cheap. Paying some now prevented me from losing a lot more later. Now I’m concerned that I may have to either stop talking to that neighbor at some point, or share something another friend just told me on the phone this evening. She said that she doesn’t ask friends for money, and she doesn’t give friends money.
I’ve followed that rule for quite a while myself, but at this point, I have to “nip it” before I’m being asked to loan someone money to buy things that I am going to deny myself of in an effort to save money. It has been difficult for me to come to grips with reality for a few months, and when I finally took a good look at my own situation, I realize that I should have been working even harder before the economy of the entire world started swirling around in the toilet after one big “flush”. It’s so ironic that I was torn by one big decision to spend all kinds of money months ahead of when I felt I should spend it. For a brief time, I started to consider giving up my own rules about having a financial cushion of some kind for the sake of fulfilling the wishes of someone else. I shared the fantasy of moving, I wanted to move myself, but I wanted to wait until I was at a certain point financially. I came so close to giving in and “going for it” and “being positive” about it, but somewhere in the back of my mind I seemed to know that it was not the right time.
I’ll never forget the feeling of hope that I had for a few moments when I made the spontaneous decision to “go for it”, and I’ll also never forget how quickly it seemed to be forgotten and pushed to the side. I felt disregarded, as if my opinion and all of my past experience meant nothing. I was disappointed that someone else wasn’t happier about it for just a little longer than they were. I was frustrated when I would share my concerns about the decision and subsequently got yelled at and accused of starting an argument or being overly negative. Little did I know that all of those feelings were building up deep inside of me, waiting for a weak moment to come out all at once, without my control or even my full memory. When I was younger, I would lose my temper easily and express my frustration without hesitation. I felt so proud of myself that I had somehow gained a sense of restraint and control over my emotions. Little did I know that as I got older, and my brain chemistry changed due to being “middle aged”, that the control I thought I had was my way of fooling myself into thinking that I could withstand just about anything.
We all seem to break down at times, we all give in to emotion eventually. I was trying to express all of the positive emotion and push down all of the negative. There was no way for me to realize that I needed to vent frustration more than I realized. There was simply no way for me to release all of that negativity while I was trying my best to stop the kind of behavior I believed was pushing someone away. The more I controlled it, the easier it would control me if given the chance. I somehow managed to have some degree of control over it, because I know, even with my fractured memory of what happened, that I still managed to follow some kind of rules even while I was still unconscious. I have to appreciate the actual event the way it happened, because I can begin to understand what a “repressed memory” is even like. I also have to understand that there may just be a few more of them locked away somewhere that want to come out, but only attempt to show me glimpses in strange, surreal dreams.
Instead of releasing my depression, anger, disappointment, frustration, regret, and remorse by getting drunk and being offensive to everyone I can on facebook, I will attempt to pour myself into all of the work that I wish I had the chance to do before attempting the move that a part of me really didn’t want to perform. Instead of being saddened by the imagery I was given the chance to create with someone who is no longer here, I have to appreciate what I was given the chance to create and be grateful enough to let myself enjoy doing it instead of dread seeing it. I’ve been testing myself for the past few months, working on small amounts of it at a time, and trying to alternate between that content and other work. I’m glad that somehow I had the ability to push myself so hard to do it, because as hard as it was at the time, it did help me to survive what is going on right now with the economy and the sudden slow down of clip purchases.
Instead of rambling on and on in email or on facebook, I need to focus my attention to the things that have some chance of finding me success at a time that is going to test not just my ability, but the abilities of anyone who depends on “the internet” to make money. Before giving up and taking on the part time job I have considered going for, I need to see if I can push myself to spend at least half the time devoted to my own work that I can do from home.
This is also going to be a time of great distraction for me. I’ve got one former neighbor who has moved away that calls me every other day asking me to come over there, and he doesn’t understand that I simply have to push myself to work. We got kind of close in the months that he lived upstairs, but he is starting to push too hard and show his manipulation outright. The other day, he calls me and I was getting loaded just about every day. He asked me when I was going to bring my ass over there to hang out, and I told him I didn’t feel up to it, and I “should be working instead of getting so drunk”. He actually told me I was selfish, and he came out and said “I have little empathy or sympathy for your situation”. It’s amazing how he always knows exactly what to say to solidify my eventual decision to tell him to kiss my ass altogether. He was the same charming soul that said “you had her, you lost her, you fucked up” within the first two weeks of her departure. This morning (actually yesterday morning as I write this), he called at 7:30am in an attempt to catch me before I started drinking. I congratulated him on being so slick, but because I woke up a little after 5am, I was already buzzed by then.
It’s going to get to the point eventually where I have to turn off the phone, because now that I’m trying to stop drinking, my schedule is about to get weirder and even more fucked up. The fact that I’ve been writing this long means that I’m long overdue to get back to working on one website or another, since one of my websites almost went 2 months without an update, and the other hasn’t been updated for at least 2 weeks by now. I was trying so hard to overcome the trauma of working with one person’s image, that in between getting loaded I would work on and promote that particular website twice has much. I can truly regret doing that now, because if I had been working on all three, I would have created even more content to go on the clip store before sales started to crap out.
It’s interesting that whatever regrets I had about what destroyed my last relationship were quickly overshadowed by further regret in the way I acted. While I want to stop drinking so that I become two to three times more productive, I will have to lie about being drunk if the neighbor who moved calls. I know he enjoys just hanging out, and I usually do too, but at this point, I have to focus on me and what I need to accomplish. He always has a “project” for me, he never fails to ask for some kind of favor in the process of going over there. Along with running errands like shopping for food and picking up prescriptions, he always comes up with something else as well. Currently it’s rear view mirror glue for a truck that he can’t drive because it’s not legal because of other issues that he has neglected to correct for over a year. I have come to hate that truck, and further, the resentment and frustration is finally boiling over onto him. The last time he gave me “homework” of bringing some documents to my place to apply for food stamps online for him, because he neglected to update his address and he failed to respond to his annual assessment.
So, I’m “selfish” because I’m growing tired of fixing his mistakes while I have been failing to be as productive as I could have been, potentially even saving money instead of losing a little each month. If I don’t deserve even his sympathy or empathy because I screwed myself by staying drunk, then I am finding it harder and harder to gather empathy for helping him correct his mistakes, never even getting quite as much “gas money” as I probably put out to help him in the first place. Throwing me a couple of pills along with 5 or 6 bucks isn’t exactly a big help to me either, because I don’t need to add another unobtainable drug to things that I enjoy, especially if he knows I would have to get it from him.
When it comes to my current neighbor with the bank account “issue” going on right now, I’ve already handed over a couple of dollars because he has had me charge stuff and then he’s paid me back double at least twice in the past. Now that he has shared what happened to his account and why it happened, I cannot and will not extend any kind of “credit” to him either. I was assured by the last person I expected that I can be a “good guy” recently, and I’m grateful for that. It’s going to help balance out the equation of my life when I have to be a total asshole to two different people, probably one right after the other. It’s a good thing that I don’t suffer from being “lonely” because everybody that has befriended me in person has always ended up asking me for something that I really can’t afford to give up right now. Even my time is going to have a cost now, because I’ve wasted day after day, at a cost of $10 a bottle, seeing how much vodka I could consume before passing out and maybe getting 6 to 7 hours of sleep at a time. I would spend hours back and forth between trying to do a “little work” and then rambling to myself on facebook.
I guess I needed to vent, because as much as I might regret some of the crazy shit I’ve said and done on there, I have to wonder if I would feel the way I do now if I had not experienced doing all of that then. What I really regret though is how much I was drinking. I never knew I could have such a tolerance for it. The more I would drink, the more it would take. The more it would take, the more expensive it got, and the less I would accomplish. While there had to be a very real desire to finally go too far just one time and not wake up, I have to convince myself that there is still something I’m meant to accomplish that can actually bring me some kind of peace and happiness. I have to work hard to convince myself that there is some reason not to eject myself from this reality. I am not catholic, not even christian, so the age old fantasy that suicide will result in some kind of afterlife punishment doesn’t apply.
I can see and appreciate the value of religion when I think about it this way. Everybody goes through shit, everybody loses things and people they love. Those lucky souls who actually believe wholeheartedly in religion can at least rely on the fear of God not to jump off a very tall building. My endless sense of curiosity has me wanting to see the other side, so when tragic shit happens to me, it just accentuates a preexisting fantasy. One of the only things that keeps me here is an equally balanced sense of curiosity about “fate and destiny”. I also have to look at the suffering and loss of other people, and how I somehow managed to make it through a previous experience of loss that I didn’t think I would recover from.
It’s really ironic, because the most traumatic experience previously was the way in which I had to walk away from the first creative thing I ever did that actually made money. The irony is in the way that I told myself upon leaving that situation that I would never get mixed up with anything having to do with that stuff again, only to meet a woman within the first year of leaving that encouraged me and helped me to not only make it happen, but give me the chance to learn how to do it myself as well. I have to wonder what would have happened if I hadn’t met her, and I hadn’t given myself the opportunity to “go for it again”. I would have not only missed out on a lot of extremely interesting and incredible further memories, but I would have also been forced to experience a career change anyway.
When I think that far back, it makes it a lot easier to deal with my more recent loss. I used to say that if it weren’t for the negative experience I had in Florida, I would never have eventually met my prior ex. As grateful as I was to have met her, and as much as it might hurt to lose her (especially twice), I have to assume that one day in a couple of years, I might very well be even more grateful that this change happened at this time.
A month ago it would have been almost impossible for me to even imagine, or think this way, but I have to assume that it took me so long to come out of my serious depression because I was so deeply attached. I should be grateful to have experienced the longest relationship in my life instead of being angry, resentful, and obsessed with the fact that it had to eventually end. It should give me some hope that if my previous relationship was the longest, maybe the next one will be even longer. In my typical morbid sense of humor though, I have to add “or at least I’ll freaking die first”.
Better yet, maybe she’ll have the guts to do it!
It turns out I don’t even need to be drunk to be that offensive and obnoxious. There is even a possibility that I will, at least for a time, be even darker in my sense of humor while sober.
I have some degree of hope and faith in myself, but I’ll probably fall off the wagon a few times in the process of trying to get it under control. I’m so very fortunate that after staying drunk almost constantly for over 2 months, I don’t feel any physical withdrawal, and even the sense of anxiety I had before was wiped out when I finally updated one website with over 100 photos.
There may actually be a very real possibility that I may find a way to successfully transfer addiction yet again, except with a sense of purpose in making it a positive addiction instead of a negative one. I really shouldn’t have spend so many years getting high. When I started to see my best friend from high school and drug dealer start to fall apart because of cocaine, I knew it was only a matter of time before obtaining weed would be an issue. As this was going on, I seemed to switch over to alcohol without even trying. I’ve stopped drinking for a day or two here and there, or at least I limited myself to only 5 drinks so I could accomplish some kind of work without making mistakes, but every time I tried to stop it was because I wanted to accomplish something because even my drunk self still had some kind of “eventual responsibility override” thing going on. There was always an attempt for logic to win out over frivolity. I used to be so very good at denying myself things that I wanted, but intoxicants were always a weakness.
When I thought I had the drinking under control, I would use it as a “reward” for accomplishing something. I couldn’t get drunk until I did my work. Over the past two months, I couldn’t stop freaking out unless I had a drink. Even as I sobered up from finishing off the last bit of alcohol I had in my possession, I could feel the anxiety start to build up. This time, instead of giving into it, I worked with it. I used it to do at least one thing that was already at least a month and a half overdue. Instead of giving into it after that, I took a break from working with images and websites to sit down and write something, anything. Instead of writing about negative shit though, I managed to learn something about myself that was too painful to even contemplate just weeks before. Instead of being insulting, resentful, vindictive, and obnoxious, I was curious, insightful, somewhat hopeful, and maybe even determined.
Honestly though, it’s going to help me to quit drinking when I use it as an excuse as to why I can’t afford to lend someone money, along with the fact that I’ve already shared the rules about loaning or asking friends for it. At first, as my neighbor and relatively recent acquaintance started sharing his current problem, I felt his hopelessness, dismay, and sense of disaster. As I processed it more and more in the back of my mind, I compared his situation to my past decision, and I was grateful to have taken care of business instead of regretting how much it cost and how difficult it was. Even now, the knowledge of exactly how many dollars are going out per month could cause me anxiety, but instead, they provide motivation.
My ass is going to sleep, and I about about to start getting repetitive, so even the writing has to come to an end, but it has been interesting for me to do some public self exploration. Some day some of this stuff might actually come in handy, and if I do it a little each day (not quite this much), it might eventually provide some kind of framework for a story that I would have to call “fiction” but would be based on real life. Maybe with enough practice, I can become better at my sentence structure and my ability to tell a story. Everything that I write just spills out of my brain and drains from my fingers to the keyboard without very much effort, so maybe this will even help me not be so talkative and irritating if I actually do meet the woman of my dreams that I didn’t even know existed until I lost the woman who I thought was supposed to be her. That’s probably the most optimistic I have been about the whole situation since it happened, and I don’t even have any real “leads” because I have wasted so much time already.
I even attempted to pick some “low hanging fruit” on facebook, but luckily I have a few simple rules to determine someone’s level of interest. Even more fortunate for me is the fact that because I’ve been through this before, I know what it’s like to talk to a woman, even long distance, who is truly and genuinely interested in getting to know me for me before they even know how much of a mess I can be. Luckily for them, my talkative nature often causes me to be extremely honest when the stakes are as high as finding “the one”.