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They think they are shooting you down, when really they are shoving you out of the way of the bullet that is themselves. “You know where to find me when you grow up" is a line I had worn-out by the end of my teens, yet I never get to leave it out of my repertoir for long.
The world is swimming in children of all ages. The only "favor" having them young migh do is forcing them to grow up a little earlier, and only if you're very lucky, they are still whole enough to both resent you for it and forgive you. People think their adult children still idolizing them is a good result, but those children are NOT grown.
My favorite is when they tell me I'm the immature one because I don't want to be their daddy.
And what sucks is there is nobody who isn't a bullet. Everyone is like this now, at least in my dating pool. People don't grow and self reflect as they age, they just double-down on their bitterness towards others. When they talk about 'growth and self reflection and emotional maturity' all they mean is they are more uncompromising in what they demand from others. They never think that maybe their 'standards' are totally absurd in light of the limits of economic, emotional, and physical reality of other people. Those limits only apply to themselves!
My favorite is the lady who tells you she doesn't care about money, or material things, etc. but her 'bare minimum' is you drive a 70K car, own a luxury home, and have some very prestigious job/career/education. meanwhile she's a mid-level office worker driving a beat up Toyota... and she seems absolutely nothing contradictory or hypocritical with this 'standard'. And she also thinks men are just all 'using her for sex and can't commit'... I wonder why... almost as if when you are a shallow transactional person you only end up with other shallow transactional people...