by Turncoat
There's more to him than a bully complex. To refer to Thoughts?, his intro thread I linked before:
"At the moment, I seem to be projecting a persona that people find pleasing. It allows me to maintain a circle of ‘friends’ that I socialize with on the weekends and even allows me excel professionally. I call it the ‘affable eccentric’and it seems to be quite effective."
He thinks he's likable to the point of efficiency.
True.
"Dress sharp, don’t sleep around too much, only defend, never attack and always articulate yourself with humorous distinction. But little do they know;"
He might think his attacks are a form of defending. Perhaps a subconscious need topreemptive strike at those who resemble bullies from his past? 
This was sloppy. Read the rest of the thread before you make hip-shot assumptions. Using the word 'might' in the middle of a direct quotation makes you look like an amateur, especially when the answer to your musing lies within the research material you yourself salvaged.
"I don’t sleep around because after I am ‘finished’, with women, I no longer have any use for them. How can these fools expect me to take them seriously when I have just wielded them like an instrument? The really troublesome part is that you begin to develop a ‘reputation’ after you have mishandled too many womenand reputations always prompt unacceptable questions like “Why are you doing that?†I now refrain from sleeping around under the pretense that I am waiting for “the oneâ€, but I assure that this is NOT IDEAL!!!"
Seems to be going through a sexual dry spell he's sorted out in his mind to be seen as his own idea and seems to care about his reputation.
No longer true, but it was true at the time. I still care about my reputation because a good reputation makes it easier to assimilate.
"Although I thoroughly enjoy verbal and physical confrontations, I have found that if you confine this behavior to those that other people consider as ‘bullies’, all your transgressions are forgiven and in some cases, they are even celebrated. The aggressive chumps that I clandestinely bait seem to never seem to imagine that I will not get out of their way. They don’t expect it when I seem to ‘accidentally’ hit on their woman. The precious fools are always surprised when I don’t yield to their challengesand they CERTAINLY don’t expect it when such an articulately spoken individual such as myself seems more than willing to end the confrontation with violence. People seem to admire the fact that I never give in ‘bullies’, but it never fails to amuse me that they never think to wonder why I seem to find so many."
The "Bullying the Bully" justification quote I referenced before.
shrug Everyone needs an outlet. Otherwise they wind up as an insomniac prescription junkie.
You wouldnt happen to know anyone like that would you Turncoat? ;)
"But back to my potential problem. I rememberlove."
D'aww~
Indeed. What is your point?
"Such POWER I felt during that time! To wake up every day with the seemingly infallible knowledge that I was actually WINNING was intoxicating and after nearly two years of separation I still regret the need to end it."
He is used to losing, and hates that fact. Whether this is general or just related to his luck with the ladies is debatable.
Choosing a partner is the most profound decision an individual will make in their lifetime. The final consequences of failure in this search are the quintessential definition of failure.
Being single is the manifestation of a question that can only be answered by another individual. Until that question is finally answered in full, whatever your social standing might be, whatever your bank statement reads, you are still behind the eight-ball compared to a couple with nothing more between them but a packet of biscuits and the willingness to share them in happiness.
So yes, you are correct in a way, but the fact that I can recognise the fact isn't a situation that shames me.
"Unfortunately, it soon became apparent that she had a ‘past’ she needed to contend with and in that regard I was simply no help. She needed me to understand her problems, she wanted me to sooth her pain, but all I could offer her was the assurance that I would systematically destroy anything that might attempt to hurt her in the future. It wasn’t enough, so we ended it."
He lacks the ability to relate to others and lacks the ability to help others through their problems beyond "systematic destruction".
True. I still have nothing to substitute for this...
"Whilst I am fairly sure that I have nailed down the rest of my game fairly tightly, I have come to resent the implied weakness in my character. So, if I am ever again fortunate enough find myself confronted with a woman of similar quality, how do I prevent a similar outcome?"
Being called weak hurts his pride~
Incorrect. Knowing I am weak in this area just pisses me off. It's something to work on I guess.
All this, just from his first post. It's almost two months old, but I somehow feel not much has changed in that time for him. Other posts of his I'm sure show so much else, but his first post is just so easy.
Carry on.
Well done. I was wondering when I would piss somone off enough to make it worth their while to pull that shit back upand I guess that this is it.
God knows why you put so much effort into putting that fuckwit on your shoulders though. Is he in some way significant to you? Or was it simply a matter of convenience to take a shot at me on his behalf?
