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I should get paid for doing this stuff.. gah...
What am I referring to, you ask innocently. Well, I'm talking about being a relationship counselor of course.
I always saw my parents act as marriage counselors to some friends of ours, but I never thought I would have to take on the same role..
Case #1 - Ben and Annie
Details: Friend from college meets my friend from high school.
...God. This is starting to piss me off. stare Last Friday, Ben actually had the nerve to call me and ask me to drive the hour and forty-five minute up to Portlad, pick up Annie, and drive the hour and forty-five minutes back down to Corvallis so that they could "get acquainted" with one another. stare
What's worse, he tried to ask me that again for next weekend, even though he -knows- I'm going to be gone on a speech and debate retreat next weekend. Gaaaahhh..
Case #2 - Jonathan and Amy
Details: minavu meets his online girlfriend (who lives in CA).
After he goes to all the effort to go out and visit her, not only does she reject his wedding proposal, she breaks up with him. Because of that, he had me post in her DeadJournal anonymously and try to convince her to stay with him.
Needless to say... it didn't work. ._.;
So now the poor guy's devastated, but he says he'll just look into the prospect of a local girl with whom he dated for awhile before Amy.
Case #3 - Oliver and Aya
Details: Celebrated their 8 month anniversary of going out, 7 months of Gaian marriage, last Friday.
Okies. Oliver and Aya got into a HUGE fight last night. Well, it was over the vend again, as usual, and what I gleaned from Aya was that she said Oliver was acting like an a*****e, but he actually called her a b***h.
As it turned out, she was working towards getting him Minis, while he was holding a September Letter 03 for her birthday. So... vending really stressed their relationship to their limits.
After their fight, Aya stormed off *or so... not quite sure of this part*, then Oliver made that long-ish post in his journal. After reading that, I gave him a call and talked with him for nearly an hour and a half. I stressed that he should wait it out for a few days, even though he was feeling some doubts about their relationship *and with my roommate Kathy in the background saying that he didn't deserve this kind of treatement, in her words*.
So this morning, Aya IMs me on MSN and gives me her side of the story, and that she's going to give up vending and let Oliver handle it, while she manages the shop in the Exchange or just vends from time to time, because as she put it, "the competition will only drive us apart."
So during that conversation, I realized that it was simply a misunderstanding *goodness knows they seem to have these a lot*, so I left Oliver a voice mail. Wrapping up my convo with her, I left to go to errands.
When I got back, she IMed me asking whether Oliver replied back to the voice mail *he hadn't*. She reiterated that she was going to change for him, and so I called him back up. On the 2nd ring, he answered, and I told him to get his butt online.
*sighs, takes a deep breath, and continues*
After that, they must've talked for quite while, because I noticed that he came online, and then he made his most recent, MASSIVE post about them reconciling and possibly ending the arguments. I'll just quote the random parts where I'm mentioned.
Things should be okies now. ^^
Quote: I'm very glad that Amanda called me or I would probably have never returned and most likely would have gone to do something crazy. In fact, I had just finished drawing depressing pictures and was on my way out of the dorm without a clue as to where I was going when she called. If you read this Amanda...thank you so much for calling last night so I could talk and cry everything out and for calling today, as well as for always being there to help me out with my feelings and relationship issues. You said that you do it because you feel wanted and helpful...you are more of a help than you might realize.
Honestly. He keeps making me repeat myself all the time. xp Niichan always forgets that the reason why I care so much about him and Aya is that I want to see their relationship succeed. They've gone through so much together that sometimes all he needs is to vent to a 3rd party who, in a way, understands a slice of the sorrow and happiness that an "online" relationship can bring, a relationship that many wouldn't understand.
Perhaps I'm odd that way. Perhaps ulterior motives drive my actions, but if I had any, then I don't know what they are. Besides, if I didn't even realize I was "famous"/"well-known"/"a celebrity" around the Exchange until last night, one can only wonder what goes on in my little head.
 Aquafire · Mon Oct 11, 2004 @ 03:13am · 0 Comments |
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