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WCDT Strips 3821-3825 (3-7 September 2018)
cybersmurf:
Claire obviously likes to reject reality and substitute her own. That's OK, as long as she can handle the "sync" with real life. But the way I see it, it's balanced out by her working against herself every now and then.
Case:
--- Quote from: cybersmurf on 04 Sep 2018, 07:44 ---Claire Humans obviously likes to reject (sic: objective) reality and substitute her their own (reality). That's OK, as long as she they can handle the "sync" with real life, which most humans do not manage for timescales exceeding the half-life of a pissed-off transactinide.
Claire is a human being.
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FYP
Is it cold in here?:
A human being with strong needs for safety which she depends on structure to provide.
She may be scared that she's wound up intimate with someone who doesn't track his finances.
dutchrvl:
--- Quote from: chris73 on 02 Sep 2018, 20:27 ---
--- Quote from: Castlerook on 02 Sep 2018, 19:46 ---
Also...Claire. You have lived with Marten how long? What on earth made you think Marten would use a budget?!
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Without wanting to start anything this whole arc is not painting Clare in a good light. I mean, generally speaking, one of the first things you do when you move in together is do a budget, even if its as simple as Martens is yet its coming up now?
Like Marten has learnt to not disregard what Clare says and dig deeper (and thats good) but has Clare learned to communicate better?
Seems to me Clare was doing a boy who cried wolf thing in that she'd say something about being stressed and Marten would ask whats wrong and she'd tell him everythings ok so Marten learnt that Clare didn't need help with stress, until she did and then Marten had to admit his failure whereas Clare doesn't think she had anything to do with it
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Underlining is mine.
I just wanted to point out that that is not necessarily true. When me and my gf moved in together, we only discussed aspects in more general terms, i.e. what our max budget would be for our rental place. Apart from that, we only make budgets for certain things, like vacations, but not for our day-to-day life. We basically just pay separate things and more or less keep an eye on whether we are more or less paying our fair share.
I do realize that our approach is a relatively less common one, and perhaps it only works well since we have similar incomes and spending habits, but so far it has been totally fine for almost 7 years. Just wanted to mention that different approaches work for different people.
dutchrvl:
--- Quote from: pallanox on 04 Sep 2018, 06:54 ---I was now going to mention his guitar splurge.
Kudos for Claire trying to get the facts straight. Spreadsheets are a hell unto themselves.
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Meh, was Claire really trying to get her facts straight though? It reads more as if Claire was venting about her conversation with Marten to Tai, and Tai corrected her when she realized Claire did not have her facts straight. If Claire had asked Tai about the details of Marten's employment, the conversation here would've gone quite different.
From me, Claire would've gotten kudos if she had gotten the facts from Tai first, before fussing to Marten about it.
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