The problem is that you continue to way over analyze everything. I mean, look how long it took you just to talk about a screw coming out of the iron.
The next time she makes a snide remark like that, stop what you're doing, look her dead in the eye and tell her not to talk to you like that again. Period.
Stop thinking and start doing. Who do you see as being an extremely masculine man?
M-43 W-40 2D - 9 and 5
Emotion, yet peace. Ignorance, yet knowledge. Passion, yet serenity. Chaos, yet harmony. Death, yet a new life.
