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WCDT New Year's Week 2012 (Jan. 2-6, 2091-95)

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haikupoet:

--- Quote from: pwhodges on 02 Jan 2012, 09:39 ---My feeling is that you all (and Jeph, if the prevailing interpretation is correct) are being a bit hard on Marten here.  It's not really completely reasonable to expect a perfectly modulated response to a remark with so few cues to the underlying thoughts.

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I tend to agree. Marten can't really know what's going on here. What I think is going on is that Padma wants him to ask her to stay, and I have a funny feeling Padma had or will have a conversation with her grandmother telling her to go for it. She's already said she can stay a few extra weeks, so there's got to be something along those lines going on.

Welu:
Thanks, Carl-E. I've been writing today so feeling quite lyrical in my posts. :laugh:


--- Quote from: Border Reiver on 02 Jan 2012, 08:43 ---Who discusses everything they want out of a relationship with that person before they start?  The whole relationship thing tends to be an evolutionary process with most of us humans.

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It's not really practical in most normal getting together situations. However when they both knew she'd be leaving soon, they should have had a bit more sense. They don't need an all night conversation where they discuss every detail of the possible future. One of them just needed to ask, "So, is this potentially serious or just for fun?" Even if the answer was, "We'll see how it goes." then there would be less uncertainty and they'd know how the other feels, even if that feeling is also confused.
The big missed opportunity to do was when Padma said she might stay for a few more weeks.

themacnut:
Discussion wouldn't have helped, especially if said discussion happened right after the first or even second time they slept together. They both would have agreed it was just for fun, and they'd enjoy it while it lasted (or Marten would have gotten so whiny about Padma leaving she would've decided he just wasn't worth the trouble, dumped him on the spot and not spoken to him again) . Even Padma announcing she could postpone leaving would have been seen by Marten as postponing the end, and therefore extending the fun awhile longer.

Marten is too clueless to catch any subtle signs that Padma's feelings have changed, so she's going to have to come right out and say so. Otherwise, they'll just carry on as before, with Marten (unintentionally) brushing off any signals from Padma that she wants things to be more serious between them, until the time comes when she can't postpone leaving any longer, or it gets too painful for her to carry on like things are still casual between them, and then she'll dump Marten, possibly after a big fight between them where Padma basically accuses Marten of not being able to read her subtle signals and maybe using her for sex.

And Marten will be left broken-hearted and confused.

Carl-E:
No, Padma's more straight forward than that.  She'll say someting. 


As soon as she figures out what the hell she's going through...

sitnspin:
The other problem with communication is that in order to communicate clearly, you have to know what it is you want to say.  Between that and thinking you HAVE communicated it when you haven't, most problems with human relationships (romantic and otherwise) are summed up nicely.

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