Never Say Never! What Have You Done That You Said You'd Never Do (Again)?

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OneEyedDiva

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I got married a second time. Also I said I'd never let my son move back in with me (you know the stigma about grown men living with their mamas), but after my DIL died, I invited him to do so. It just made emotional and financial sense. The first time I ate cottage cheese I thought it was yucky and said I'd never eat it again. But then I discovered Golden Cheese Blintzes, which I love and they contain cottage cheese.
 

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I've told myself many times to "never again" get into disagreements with anyone who may be suffering from oppositional defiant disorder and would argue with *anything* or worse, say mean things just for the sake of being mean. I always take it personally and I hate that about myself because I never seem to learn.
 
Rose65 said:
It takes so many lessons in my case, to learn. People always let you down, so never depend too much on anyone.
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Same here. It can be worth learning, though: a few years back, someone I liked a lot made what would've seemed like a friendly gesture to me years ago; I said to myself, "Don't mistake this for a friendly gesture; she's just using you." And I was right but it didn't hurt or disappoint as much as it would have in times past. So that's something, I guess.
 
Lady said:
There are some Holiday Lets I said never again .And i never went back again . Plus Coach holidays , going as a single , had the worst rooms .
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Lady ( sorry for being off topic ).. but I'm interested in the bad rooms on a coach trip. Now I'm alone , I was just thinking the other day about going on coach trips, and wondered if I;d end up with rotten rooms.. or tables next to toilets in the restaurants... can you let me know which coach companies or hotels are the guilty of this please
 
CallMeKate said:
I've told myself many times to "never again" get into disagreements with anyone who may be suffering from oppositional defiant disorder and would argue with *anything* or worse, say mean things just for the sake of being mean. I always take it personally and I hate that about myself because I never seem to learn.
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I just had one! With someone in the family who loves to argue. This time however, I kept my cool, remained very brief in my reply and didn't rise to the bait. When they carried on, I blocked them on my phone.

I'm feeling proud of myself actually. In the past I allowed myself to be sucked into dreadful unending rows that only finished in awful verbal abusive language.

Now my stance is to hold my tongue no matter how provoked.
 
Actually, nothing I can think of easily. Saying never again is serious, or it should be. When I say "never again" I mean it! If I can think of something I said I'd never do again but have done, I will update. Okay? :giggle:
 
Never going to express with pride & showed her how well I managed cap & align alphabetically the 30 spice bottles in the spice cabinet my wife bought. All the spice names facing an easily readable direction.

Of course she thanked me but then said the bottles rotate easily to face an easily readable direction. One of those I knew that moments for me o_O
 
hollydolly said:
Rob... so you deliberately put yourself in the line of fire, and allow people to mistreat you ?..no surely not
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Not exactly what I meant. I do my best to avoid, when possible, those I trust to mistreat me.

On the other hand I probably have a thicker skin that some, I will put up with a bit of abuse if I am getting some benefit from the relationship. A kind of cost/benefit trade off.

I learned that in my consulting career, sometimes you have to put up with a**holes if they pay well. Once the need for that income goes away so do I. Some clients enjoyed having you under their thumbs and dishing out unpleasantness. My time always cost those clients more.
 
Alligatorob said:
Not exactly what I meant. I do my best to avoid, when possible, those I trust to mistreat me.

On the other hand I probably have a thicker skin that some, I will put up with a bit of abuse if I am getting some benefit from the relationship. A kind of cost/benefit trade off.

I learned that in my consulting career, sometimes you have to put up with a**holes if they pay well. Once the need for that income goes away so do I. Some clients enjoyed having you under their thumbs and dishing out unpleasantness. My time always cost those clients more.
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yes I've been there , worn that Tee.. and starred in the film...
 

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