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| 40 | Rules for men trying to respect FDS in their dating life | Caelus9 | /r/askFDS | 16/04/20 08:44 PM | |
| 14 | Staying Friends with Ex's | Caelus9 | /r/askFDS | 29/04/20 06:18 PM |
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| 1 | "The only thing you really need to know is that my daughter will always be number 1." - famous last words of a perpetual single mom.That seems like a pretty worthwhile way to open things, dude. "This is something about me that won't be changed, and can be a deal-breaker. If that's something you're fine with, let's keep talking!" Are you complaining that she shouldn't have opened with that and should've been dishonest? What on earth is entitled about "Hey, here's this thing that might be a deal-breaker!", followed by "If it isn't, let's converse"? Where's the entitlement? Where did this woman say she expects you to want to da… | /r/WhereAreAllTheGoodMen | 04/03/21 07:11 PM |
| 0 | "The only thing you really need to know is that my daughter will always be number 1." - famous last words of a perpetual single mom.Genuinely asking, do you guys think that single moms shouldn't put their kids before everything else? | /r/WhereAreAllTheGoodMen | 04/03/21 04:44 PM |
| 4 | Remember that meme on r/niceguys of the guy getting his face blown off? Well the genuinely nice people of r/niceguys are once again upvoting posts glorifying violence towards men. Imagine the outcry if we started making memes mocking women getting killed, something we will NEVER allow.It's... it's a meme, bro. It's not glorifying violence. Is a joke. | /r/WhereAreAllTheGoodMen | 23/02/21 02:11 AM |
| 2 | 'Straight, white males can't win the Booker Prize today': Past winner John Banville slams 'woke' movement as 'a religious cult' after gay author scoops 2020 award and two women shared it last yearA white straight man literally won in 2017. Banville's a silly old fool if he can't remember that. | /r/MensRights | 02/12/20 02:51 PM |
| 1 | Staying Friends with Ex'sHoly shit, are you actually linking a red piller? Jesus Christ, have you just been trolling me this entire time? Are you actually some weird misogynistic lurker? The reason red pillers don't think intergender friendship can exist is because they don't give a fuck about women for anything outside of sex. I mean, look at what he's saying. "The quality of a friendship with a woman decays if she's dating someone"? I understand how stupidly obvious this seems, but remember we’re qualifying the charac… | /r/askFDS | 01/06/20 01:19 AM |
| 1 | Staying Friends with Ex'sI'm sorry, are you genuinely the type who's scared of "soy boys" and "SJW"s? Or is that a joke? | /r/askFDS | 01/06/20 01:12 AM |
| 1 | Staying Friends with Ex'sI mean, I'm certainly impressed by her, she's a high-value person. I didn't say anything about her I wouldn't say about any friend of mine. Are you saying I shouldn't use those types of compliments for women? That seems pretty absurd. | /r/askFDS | 01/06/20 01:12 AM |
| 0 | Staying Friends with Ex'sYeah, no. If I'm with someone who talks about his ex he's still in contact with like this, I'm going to be thinking "HM! She sounds like a really smart woman and she ...chose not to be with him. I wonder what she knows that I don't! I trust another woman's judgement." Again, I really feel you're not listening to my backstory. We moved because our lives were going different ways. I couldn't get back with her, or keep her around for sex, and she didn't break-up with me. It was an unfortunate mutua… | /r/askFDS | 01/06/20 12:20 AM |
| 1 | Staying Friends with Ex'sI mean, I won't be moving back, and neither will she. If things had gone differently, I'd have continued dating her, but that didn't happen, so I moved on. I mean, it's no different from if you end a relationship on good terms and don't keep being friends with them in that regard, there's no difference there whether I stay friends or not. Although, of course, there won't be any getting back together due to the whole different life paths and continents thing. As to "thinking about her", of course… | /r/askFDS | 01/06/20 12:01 AM |
| 1 | Staying Friends with Ex'sThank you very much for your answer, and I appreciate the time you took to write it out to me. I think that's a very interesting point. From the other responses here, I definitely see why the behaviour can be worrying, and I agree its definitely important to only commit into a relationship with this as a thing I'm doing if I'm doing so confidently and fully, and that it would definitely be something worth discussing and assuaging any worries or fears my partner might have with that behavior. It'… | /r/askFDS | 18/05/20 01:26 PM |
| 1 | Staying Friends with Ex'sSorry, I was actually asking to discuss it with u/modernmedusaa, seeing as she had a lot of misunderstandings of my motives. But, of course, I'm grateful for your response, but I do want to just highlight something I've been emphasizing this whole time, that because of the reason of the break-up, namely moving to different continents, I definitely wouldn't be trying to keep anyone on the backburner or even able to get back with them if I somehow just turned around and completely wanted that. But… | /r/askFDS | 17/05/20 05:21 PM |
| 1 | Staying Friends with Ex'sI'm not sure if you're referring to my specific details, but for me, sex is completely out of the question for this particular friend, because we'd be on different continents. So this definitely wouldn't be the incentive, and any SO's would have no reason to fear that it was. Thanks for letting me clear that up, I see why that could be a worry for other men if you didn't know me or my specifics. Anyhow, I see your point in you being over your ex's, but I think there's a big difference between "I… | /r/askFDS | 11/05/20 03:40 PM |
| 0 | Staying Friends with Ex'sWell, let's discuss this. I'd feel absolutely fine with my girlfriend's keeping her ex's as close friends. I'd never date a woman I couldn't trust, so I can't think of anything I'd have to fear from her staying in contact with her ex's. I actually have dated women who kept their ex's as close friends. As to what happens if my friend gets jealous? Well, for me specifically, that wouldn't happen as she's in another nation. But outside of my specific situation, I treat it as no different than if on… | /r/askFDS | 11/05/20 03:32 PM |
| 1 | Staying Friends with Ex'sThat makes a lot more sense. Thank you for clarifying. Although I personally wouldn't be offended by an SO being close with an ex, I can see why that might in general just leave doubts a way to niggle into a relationship, and that may be unhealthy. I appreciate your response, it makes more sense of your position and I think I understand better now. Have a lovely day and thanks for the time of day. | /r/askFDS | 01/05/20 11:21 AM |
| 0 | Staying Friends with Ex'sI wouldn't say I was trying to justify my position, more explain to see if the response against dating ex's is based on the average man's reasoning when they do so, or if it would apply to my own personal reasons. But I see your point, I'll think upon the answers I've received here and try come for a conclusion based on the collective experience of women, yours included. Thank you very much for your time. | /r/askFDS | 01/05/20 11:16 AM |
| 1 | Staying Friends with Ex'sI'm looking at this from a "whole life" sort of perspective, not just "while I'm single". I try to keep all healthy relationships that make me a better person active in my life, and I find it upsetting in the same way I'd be upset if one of my close mates and I had to stop talking and I never knew what happened to them. But I understand the dynamic isn't the same as a mentor or good friend. That's why I decided to get an FDS perspective, to see if ALL former relationships are seen as emotional b… | /r/askFDS | 01/05/20 01:41 AM |
| 1 | Staying Friends with Ex'sSo just if I could clarify, in my situation it's not really a failed relationship, just an ending one, and I've completely ended my romantic feelings. I wasn't broken up with, I'm not breaking up with them, and it definitely couldn't be sex, because we'll be on the other side of the world. I've definitely asked myself about this, and its (in my mind) because my ex was a really good person and helped me grow as a better man, and my feelings have shifted to those similar I have to my male friends … | /r/askFDS | 01/05/20 01:31 AM |
| 1 | Staying Friends with Ex'sIf you'd be so kind, could you tell me more specifically what about your ex doing that was so frustrating? Did it seem like he wasn't fully committing to you, or did it seem duplicitous, or what? Thanks for responding regardless. | /r/askFDS | 01/05/20 01:27 AM |
| 1 | Staying Friends with Ex'sTo be clear, in case it changes your answer, this isn't a "I'm dumping you but I want to still be friends" or a "Even though you're dumping me, I want to be friends". It's in the case of a mutual decision because I've moved. Do you still think it's wrong in my circumstance, or would that change anything? Thanks! | /r/askFDS | 01/05/20 01:26 AM |
| 2 | Staying Friends with Ex'sThank you for responding. So if the reasoning was "This is a good person who had an impact on who I was, and I want to be friends with her", you don't think that's acceptable? | /r/askFDS | 01/05/20 01:24 AM |
| 10 | Rules for men trying to respect FDS in their dating lifeAh, OK, this clears it up for me. Thank you, it's appreciated and has helped me understand FDS a lot more. Both people should put themselves first in a relationship, and if incompatibilities or red flag arise, it's only the destruction of a relationship that wasn't right in the first place. | /r/askFDS | 17/04/20 04:58 PM |
| 13 | Rules for men trying to respect FDS in their dating lifeOK, so hypothetically it's fine, but in practice that behaviour is pretty telling. That clears it up a lot. | /r/askFDS | 17/04/20 06:31 AM |
| 3 | Rules for men trying to respect FDS in their dating lifeThank you very much for your response. If you'd be so kind, I have one question regarding what you're saying about FDS counteracting the cultural messaging put towards women. Is the message women should put themselves first supposed to sort of cancel out the "women should put themselves last after men" messaging, so that a sort of medium is arrived at? Or is "women should always put themselves first" the outcome to be arrived at? Basically, if we could magically move to a hypothetical universe w… | /r/askFDS | 17/04/20 06:29 AM |
| 1 | Rules for men trying to respect FDS in their dating lifeSo if they ask, would the best move to say you're not comfortable telling? | /r/askFDS | 16/04/20 10:14 PM |
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