[ ARC forum 2 ]
Written by Rood at 26 Mar 2002 02:49:45: Re: Therapy.
As an answer to: Re: Therapy. written by AJ at 25 Mar 2002 17:19:12:
You may not believe me, AJ, but, yes, I am concerned about you. More than you know. I admire your defensive posture in a way...it shows real spunk. But, gosh, few are able to withstand the assaults that you face here, alone, on a daily basis. If you had seen fit to let down your guard when friendship was offered to you it might all have been different. I wished it. There always seemed something there, just under the surface, suspicious and hostile, that prevented it, perhaps on both sides. If you have noticed during the past month, I have tried, carefully, to stay out of the fray, but now, here I am, again, offering my friendship. We have been through a lot, the two of us, and we have suffered, perhaps needlessly. Can't we at last be simply two men who have more in common than most, two men who understand, perhaps, what the other has endured more than anyone else? Here is my hand, stretched out. Will you take it? You know where to reach me. Rood
Your very long post on this general subject on another site would seem to indicate that, yes, you are undergoing a lot of stress related to your participation in these forums.
>Korydon, it doesn't indicate that at all. I am not stressed by participating on forums such as these. It's this kind of patronizing speculation that gets right up my nose.
>> Do you have any other life?
>Yes, thank you. I'm confident that I don't commit anywhere near as much time as you do during NORM (or whatever) meetings you attend (or is that Ralesk?). Whatever, you worry about your life before you start to worry about mine.
>> It would seem healthy for you to back away a bit, relax and get more perspective.
>It may seem healthy to you, but whatever way YOU look at it - that's speculating and something nobody other than me has a frame of reference to.
>>It is not necessary for you to be constantly defending something that is over and done.
>I only defend my posts where replies (such as this) use speculation (and subsequently - lies) to futher their own agenda. I'm pretty sure though that you referring to me defending my getting a partial-circ, which, I can assure, I do not feel I need to defend or justify to you.
>>I'm sure that no one with foreskin problems doesn't know that circumcision, either partial or total, is one of their options. Really, it is the other options that are generally unknown--stretching, etc.
>I'm pretty sure of that too. As stretching/elongating the foreskin is not a recognised or suggested treatment by the majority of the medical community, it is bound to not been well known.