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Bergerac

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Does this friend want your help with some general issue(s) in their life, or specifically with pushing their morals into a higher place?


@Bergerac If the person needs help coupled with wanting help - this is best for a situation in which you find yourself wanting to assist someone.

If they need help with 'x' and you want to help them with 'x and y,' then that's going to be messy, and potentially as @LumberJack said, a path to hell. It's complicated, to be euphamistic, to impose a moral yardstick on a friend in the midst of helping, if that makes sense.
thank you so much. *hug
 

Bergerac

Well-Known Member
Does this friend want your help with some general issue(s) in their life, or specifically with pushing their morals into a higher place?


@Bergerac If the person needs help coupled with wanting help - this is best for a situation in which you find yourself wanting to assist someone.

If they need help with 'x' and you want to help them with 'x and y,' then that's going to be messy, and potentially as @LumberJack said, a path to hell. It's complicated, to be euphamistic, to impose a moral yardstick on a friend in the midst of helping, if that makes sense.
To be honest, it's not really about that; although I can see why you've interpreted it that way, from the small amount of information I have given.

He has begged for my help, but this man has done some dreadful things, throughout his life, and I am trying to work out if it's correct to get involved with a person like that, and if they really are capable of remorse or whether the Devil will continue to act through them and potentially against me, as I help them. If you see.
 
Welp, my therapist just told me that I'm most likely a masochist, meaning I have an extreme addiction/obsession with physical and emotional pain. I feel like this is the final sign I needed to know that I'll never get better.
I would have caution to labels and words given to us by other people. I dont know your situation but i know from experience it can be easy to hook onto these words and allow them to identify us.
 
I can't do this anymore, nothing is changing in my life. I've never felt such pain and loneliness before. I'm in a foreign country I moved with my partner in so we could be closer and together but I don't like it here. I don't even want to learn the language. I have no friends no family, I'm misunderstood and not heard by my partner, I don't have his support. I stay home and I feel so isolated. Now we have other problems. Soon we are visiting his family but I don't like being there either, I don't understand them, I don't talk to anyone that much, it's not pleasant there, I told it to him before and he was upset. He's upset I don't want to go but I feel like I have to. I visit my family alone. I never wanted to be this close to my partner's family. He said I'm a terrible person. He said he's only with me because I'm staying with him and he can't kick me out. I really wonder what I did in my previous life to have such a curse on me.
 

Windhover

meandering home
SF Supporter
To be honest, it's not really about that; although I can see why you've interpreted it that way, from the small amount of information I have given.

He has begged for my help, but this man has done some dreadful things, throughout his life, and I am trying to work out if it's correct to get involved with a person like that, and if they really are capable of remorse or whether the Devil will continue to act through them and potentially against me, as I help them. If you see.
As I don't believe in things like The or a devil, I can't comment on that part. However, having been around some people who have made seriously bad decisions and then begged for help and to be part of my life, I feel can comment, but as always it's subjective. I would definitely not get involved with helping them personally. If you are working at an agency or the like, and advising them in a professional setting then it's safer. In that case, best to follow the guidelines of the workplace as to how and when to interact with such a person.
 

Windhover

meandering home
SF Supporter
Welp, my therapist just told me that I'm most likely a masochist, meaning I have an extreme addiction/obsession with physical and emotional pain. I feel like this is the final sign I needed to know that I'll never get better.
*hug10Tell them this, I mean how their label you made you feel, and ask them to explain themselves. I'm sorry they did that. Keep us posted how it's going.
 

SillyOldBear

Teddy Bears Rule! 🐻
Staff Alumni
Like I don't want to be in this world any more. Longing to use my method. Suppose in actual fact I'll hang on one more day. Then what? I'm sick of my life just being hanging on for another day, all I'm doing is surviving and it's becoming unbearable.
I understand the feeling of just 'surviving'. Its a lousy way to feel. But you seem to be a smart man. Spend some time thinking about what would make you feel like you were doing more than surviving. Find one thing that appeals to you and take steps to move in that direction. You CAN live for more than just surviving. You CAN find a way.
 

Bergerac

Well-Known Member
As I don't believe in things like The or a devil, I can't comment on that part. However, having been around some people who have made seriously bad decisions and then begged for help and to be part of my life, I feel can comment, but as always it's subjective. I would definitely not get involved with helping them personally. If you are working at an agency or the like, and advising them in a professional setting then it's safer. In that case, best to follow the guidelines of the workplace as to how and when to interact with such a person.
Yes, these are largely my thoughts, too. I will keep thinking. I hope you're doing ok. Thank you and take care. x
 

crowgarden

Well-Known Member
They don't know everything. It's what you make of yourself.
I would have caution to labels and words given to us by other people. I dont know your situation but i know from experience it can be easy to hook onto these words and allow them to identify us.
*hug10Tell them this, I mean how their label you made you feel, and ask them to explain themselves. I'm sorry they did that. Keep us posted how it's going.
Thanks guys. Love you all *hug
 

AvidFan

Retired Cat Staff
SF Supporter
Tired but elated. Today on a whim I did a search for the roofing company who ghosted me after charging £2000 for crap work with a totally fake 5 year guarantee - fake as 2 months later they were listed as permanently closed on Google, didn't respond to contact about the issue and phones and Whatsapp blocked or dead. I had a feeling they might be phoenixing (ie opening companies, trading for a while, then folding and opening a new company to avoid liability or other purposes). Sure enough, they are now open for business again on Google, even though the entity they traded under when they did the work is now permanently dissolved. They are trading under the same name and website, currently on a dissolved company name which is fraud and illegal in the UK. In my favour, my review was editable again. So after having my glowing 5 star review stuck there for months, I was able to change it, and detail the facts of the matter and what happened, all in careful neutral but also scathing language and detail. That is still their first/latest Google review. I said I would gladly modify the review if they come and sort out the issue they left me with. But even if they don't, if it at least puts a small spanner in their works and puts other people off them, I will be happy. I might report them to both Google and Trading Standards as well for trading under a dissolved company name illegally and scamming me by offering a non existent guarantee. They are actually a Google Approved trader, unfortunately I didn't contact them directly through Google, I just trusted them like an idiot/decent person. But today I got a small dish of revenge served cold.
 

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