Stop waiting around. It probably won't get better, so if you are not willing to on-line this way, I would even end this.
Make it clear to him that you won't be waiting around and he can't be trusted to make plans with you, that it is rude to expect that you will just wait for him whenever he finally gets ready.
If he doesn't care and won't get his act together, well, then you know. Some people have terrible time management skills but it can be worked on if he wants to – set reminders, think through his path, plans and so on. If he knows visiting his mom is never a 10 minute ordeal, he needs to find another time to go. It can be a symptom of something (ADHD) or just rudeness and entitlement to other people's time, but nonetheless, he is 31 and you ar 22 should not be bothering yourself with grown man's time management skills (or lack of).
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some context: he’s always been a traveler type and we have both lived in a way that has put us in positions of being non-necessity hitchhikers ourselves in the past, and we both have picked up plenty of people from the side of the road.
i no longer stop to help people due to an incident that happened in 2017..
essentially, i welcomed in some travelers to take showers, use the wifi etc, and let’s just say my house burned down that night. i lost everything. it was traumatic.
the altruism left my body that night and i feel terrible about it, but i no longer go out of my way to help people. i do not consider it a risk i can afford.
this was when we started dating so he’s always known me to be against it, when actually i’ve been the exact same way he is my whole life up until that incident.
driving home from DC last evening we saw two people walking on the side of 70 and he started to slow down and i was like NOOOO please don’t. we didn’t have an inch of space in the truck and we had the only two valuables i even have, my laptop and ipad. He didn’t stop but made a comment about us having different values.
i’m fuming still today and the only thing i’ve said to him is that if his were higher he would maybe consider me over strangers.
but honestly. i feel terrible. i hate how horrible people are. I hate comment sections. i hate how rude and inconsiderate people are. i’ve always tried to online in a way where i was never that person learning boundaries as i got older.
i don’t feel like myself with this level of misanthropy. I’m walking around with unconditional positive regard just absolutely loathing people at the same time and this is a personal value i am sensitive over because i am not happy to have lost it.
i don’t understand how he is equating this to “values.” he is really easy to talk to but i feel too angry right now to even try.
Stop waiting around. It probably won't get better, so if you are not willing to on-line this way, I would even end this.
Make it clear to him that you won't be waiting around and he can't be trusted to make plans with you, that it is rude to expect that you will just wait for him whenever he finally gets ready.
If he doesn't care and won't get his act together, well, then you know. Some people have terrible time management skills but it can be worked on if he wants to – set reminders, think through his path, plans and so on. If he knows visiting his mom is never a 10 minute ordeal, he needs to find another time to go. It can be a symptom of something (ADHD) or just rudeness and entitlement to other people's time, but nonetheless, he is 31 and you ar 22 should not be bothering yourself with grown man's time management skills (or lack of).
Even that is I’ll advised because you attract predators looking for access to kids
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some context: he’s always been a traveler type and we have both lived in a way that has put us in positions of being non-necessity hitchhikers ourselves in the past, and we both have picked up plenty of people from the side of the road.
i no longer stop to help people due to an incident that happened in 2017..
essentially, i welcomed in some travelers to take showers, use the wifi etc, and let’s just say my house burned down that night. i lost everything. it was traumatic.
the altruism left my body that night and i feel terrible about it, but i no longer go out of my way to help people. i do not consider it a risk i can afford.
this was when we started dating so he’s always known me to be against it, when actually i’ve been the exact same way he is my whole life up until that incident.
driving home from DC last evening we saw two people walking on the side of 70 and he started to slow down and i was like NOOOO please don’t. we didn’t have an inch of space in the truck and we had the only two valuables i even have, my laptop and ipad. He didn’t stop but made a comment about us having different values.
i’m fuming still today and the only thing i’ve said to him is that if his were higher he would maybe consider me over strangers.
but honestly. i feel terrible. i hate how horrible people are. I hate comment sections. i hate how rude and inconsiderate people are. i’ve always tried to online in a way where i was never that person learning boundaries as i got older.
i don’t feel like myself with this level of misanthropy. I’m walking around with unconditional positive regard just absolutely loathing people at the same time and this is a personal value i am sensitive over because i am not happy to have lost it.
i don’t understand how he is equating this to “values.” he is really easy to talk to but i feel too angry right now to even try.
am i making this into a bigger deal than it is?