This time, I told him no. I am not going to continue to do favours for him that I know will never, ever be returned. That's not friendship, that's not nice, that's just using me to get what he wants and I had the opportunity to do that while we were married, why would I do it afterward?
It's not just him. I scroll through my Facebook messages and realise, with a few exceptions, people only contact me when they want me to do something for them. "Hey, I bet you know," "Could you look up ...?" "Give me an idea," and I do. Sometimes, when they've gotten what they want and say thank you, I say, "Hey, we should do a thing," and they say, "Yeah, yeah, sounds great." And it never happens.
I wonder how to change this, but I suspect that it involves being a person that I'm not OK with being.
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