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Do you apologize for no good reason

On the contrary, or the inverse....

I've gotten better at it, and find that its usually a simple, meaninless noise that has real benefits to my generally idiotic attempts at socializing. So, more than I used to. Not for NO reason, but as harmless sort of social show of ________? thing.
 
All the time. On Monday, i will be apologising more than I ever have before. I mean, the fact that i have destroyed a several year friendship by telling a lesbian that i love her is going to need some serious apologies, and the fact that i am unlikely to see her again, is another apology, and anything else i can think of on the fly.
 
All the time. On Monday, i will be apologising more than I ever have before. I mean, the fact that i have destroyed a several year friendship by telling a lesbian that i love her is going to need some serious apologies, and the fact that i am unlikely to see her again, is another apology, and anything else i can think of on the fly.

Sometimes it's better to tell. I've had friendships spring from unrequited love confessed, more than losing friends over it. Sometimes it takes a while to come back around, tho. As far you, being a male expressing love for a girl who prefers girls, What difference does that make? Would she have been offended if some other girl had done that same? It's not like we can really choose whether or not to fall in love with someone. Just happens. Bam! Wait, did you know she was a lesbian? Could you have been expected to know? I mean an apology for form's sake, but it's hardly a slap in the face to tell someone that you love them.
 
Sometimes it's better to tell. I've had friendships spring from unrequited love confessed, more than losing friends over it. Sometimes it takes a while to come back around, tho. As far you, being a male expressing love for a girl who prefers girls, What difference does that make? Would she have been offended if some other girl had done that same? It's not like we can really choose whether or not to fall in love with someone. Just happens. Bam! Wait, did you know she was a lesbian? Could you have been expected to know? I mean an apology for form's sake, but it's hardly a slap in the face to tell someone that you love them.

Well first, i knew beforehand. The moment she came out to me was the point where i realised. I was like "oh **** that hurt too much." And after lying to myself for I am unsure how long, i gave up.
I told her anyway because I was at a loss for what to do, but it has made everything more awkward than ever.
The second is that she feels uncomfortable seeing me every day just knowing about it. To be honest, i have no clue why it is a bad thing, but i go by the belief that emotions by their very nature, are supposed to be irrational. I would like to think that she feels bad for the fact that she can't give me what i want, but from the small amount she has told me it is the fact that I smile at her too much and am too eager to talk to her that causes her discomfort.

Strangely, I consider my situation like a third world country's political system. First tyrant in power is bad. Get rid of tyrant through painful revolution. Tyrant two comes into power. Seemingly worse than the first one.

So yeah. I did something really stupid.

I would like to say though, that falling in love is more a process than a quick change. The realisation is instant, but the feels develop over a time period. Most people who believe in love at first sight are either over-romanticising their love story, or have some kind of intimacy issue. You can only truly be in love with someone you know. Just putting that out there.
 
So after world war 3 with the wife, im still offering up apologies. But deeper thought on the matter has me understanding a little better. She makes a point of difference, into a storm in a teacup, because she thinks, ill fight her point, in the same manner I have in past. Logic goes out the window, when she has reached this state, and the only way to bring a situation like this back in control, is through a submissive approach. For a woman who knows as much as Aspergers, as she does, she doesnt hide her contempt for what I am that well. Her constant reference to what she thinks is old behaviours, leaves me frustrated and defeated. I know im not the same man I was 3 years ago, but my hisory will be left to judge my guilt or innocence. Anything other than an apology, is deemed as the old me, leaving a difference of opinion a pipe dream. For every win I allow her to rack up, in the interests of taking one for the team, it weakens my attempts of having an opinion, next time round. To have someone know you, as intimately as she does, and not, is the stark contrast, that has me unable to find any common ground, in these issues. Although I hate apologizing for no reason, I fear that in this particular case, my history dictates this outcome
 
So after world war 3 with the wife, im still offering up apologies. But deeper thought on the matter has me understanding a little better. She makes a point of difference, into a storm in a teacup, because she thinks, ill fight her point, in the same manner I have in past. Logic goes out the window, when she has reached this state, and the only way to bring a situation like this back in control, is through a submissive approach. For a woman who knows as much as Aspergers, as she does, she doesnt hide her contempt for what I am that well. Her constant reference to what she thinks is old behaviours, leaves me frustrated and defeated. I know im not the same man I was 3 years ago, but my hisory will be left to judge my guilt or innocence. Anything other than an apology, is deemed as the old me, leaving a difference of opinion a pipe dream. For every win I allow her to rack up, in the interests of taking one for the team, it weakens my attempts of having an opinion, next time round. To have someone know you, as intimately as she does, and not, is the stark contrast, that has me unable to find any common ground, in these issues. Although I hate apologizing for no reason, I fear that in this particular case, my history dictates this outcome

I might have compiled that wrong, but, yeh, it's nice being the bad guy all the time. Stings, that one, dunnit?
 
I am getting tired of my daily fights with my partner & apparently I still don't apologise for what I should. Today's argument he said he want accept my AS until he sees written proof. This is getting to much
 
I might have compiled that wrong, but, yeh, it's nice being the bad guy all the time. Stings, that one, dunnit?
Does that mean I get a mention in the thread "Does anyone feel sorry for the bad guy " . In all seriousness though, I will never get the ground rules for serious debate
 
Does that mean I get a mention in the thread "Does anyone feel sorry for the bad guy " . In all seriousness though, I will never get the ground rules for serious debate

You think of arguing in a romantic relationship as DEBATE? If only it were that easy!
 
You think of arguing in a romantic relationship as DEBATE? If only it were that easy!
According to the marriage researcher John Gottman, in some, (not all) marriages, arguments are part of a healthy relationship. The important thing is how the spouses handle disagreements (avoiding contempt, for instance), and whether such conflicts are balanced out by a greater number of loving happy moments together. What Makes Marriage Work? | Psychology Today

I think the same principles can be helpful when applied to other types of relationships as well.
 
Does that mean I get a mention in the thread "Does anyone feel sorry for the bad guy " . In all seriousness though, I will never get the ground rules for serious debate

Seriously, that might be the most aspie thing you've left here. Damn.
 
My ex-wife said something similar "you are always apologizing." Course I didn't know she was a Pirate of the Blackbeard Clan...me being of the Johnny Depp Clan... ;P


I always do that, and it causes most of mine and my mom's arguments.
 

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