Well, that last one ended. It would go great guns for a while, but every now and then there was an upheaval where she got into critiquing me over truly insignificant matters, telling me what I "should" have done, and speculating up over dramatic and obviously baseless scenarios about them, like she's "shopping for pain". In other words, she wanted me to think, act and do like her, and negatively dramatize what she saw as being my "faults" (which were really just me being different than her, which she'd paint as black). I'd listen to her, but it was more about her wanting me to meet her expectations (that I should be a clone of hers!), rather than accepting that people are different, and not communicating toward a compatible result.
Grrr.
A pal of mine who had met her a couple of times afterwards told me that his impression of her was, as pretty and bubbly as she was, that she seems to be high maintenance, and if things aren't as according to her, well, she gets mean. He got a whiff of that when he had a little interaction with her that bothered her. Funny thing is, the night of that episode, we were later at a bar where she was discussing that interaction and even started engaging a stranger sitting next to her for his unbiased opinion, and this guy, an older guy, must've come from a site like this, because he asked her why she was letting what someone else says bother her so, and he suggested that she choose what's important in picking her battles! I bought him a drink.
So, anyway, I fluff up my pillow here at Square One, brush myself off and keep on keeping on.
