Comments on: Anticipation

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By: beverley

beverley — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 18:51:00 +0000

I moved from Canada two months before my senior prom so I didn’t attend. But I’ve had many books that I’ve anticipated turn out to be less than stellar.

Oh and I remember visiting the Washington DC when i was in my teens I being so disappointed that the surrounding area was so dilapidated. Definitely did not live up to what I thought it would be.

By: lacey kaye

lacey kaye — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 01:51:00 +0000

Oh, I agree the more you anticipate something the less fun it is.

For my prom, my mom bought my dress–without me! I tried it on and I liked it and it was very reasonably-priced, so I wore it. I just thought hm, I’m pretty sure it doesn’t usually work like this!

By: MistyJo

MistyJo — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 23:34:00 +0000

I’ve thought about it today, and one of my biggest disappointments was when I went to a GAY BAR. Years ago, during the 1998 or 1999, a group of college friends and I were hanging out at a party at a professor’s house, and when the party started dying down, we decided to check out the local gay bar. I had never been to one, and I had high expectations. I mean think about it…gay men are so very particular. I was expecting something very nice, but man, was I let down. The local gay bar wound up being a SKANKY GAY BAR! The furniture didn’t match and there were adult porn pages taped to the walls. NASTY! It was such a disappointing experience that I haven’t set foot in another gay bar since then. I didn’t even go back to that one to see one of my friends perform in drag, even after I had given him make-up advice and what colors in clothing would make him look fat.

By: terrio

terrio — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 16:18:00 +0000

Forgot to mention – I never went to a prom. No formals in HS ever. The funny thing is that I started my first journal in the months leading up to my Sr. prom so I could write somewhere how depressed I was that I wasn’t going. That was a little notebook and I think I still have it, along with the 6 or 7 other jounals I’ve filled since then.

Dear diary……LOL!

By: IrishEyes

IrishEyes — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 14:30:00 +0000

I’d like to chime in on the romance readers high expectations of sex, also. I didn’t start reading these books until I was 5 or 6 years into my marriage and they definitely helped my sex life – didn’t hurt it!

I don’t know what would have happened if I would have been reading these books before I met my DH. I would like to think I would have had better sex earlier! LOL

I totally agree with Revmelinda in that I married my best friend and I love him to death, but, I believe love is a decision not a feeling. The highs and lows come and go but the decision is constant. It’s also very much a mutual decision and hard work sometimes. You both have to be on the same page and communicate CONSTANTLY.

I don’t even know what I’m trying to say. Maybe that reading romance books hasn’t raised my expectation levels unreasonably high. I’ve read some books and thought to myself – yeah, my DH would say or do that (just not all the time). The books are sort of compacted and concentrated into the span of boy meets girl, boys loses girl and boy gets girl again, marries her and they live HEA. But when you spread a relationship out over 30-50 years it can’t be flowers and poems constantly. But it does happen and when it does it’s grand!!!

By: Santa

Santa — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 02:08:00 +0000

Prom night? Never happened. Spent junior prom working and vowed never to be the one selling the beer to everyone else. Senior prom. I asked a guy who graduated. He politely declined. I hung out in the parking lot of a local strip mall. Pathetic? Yes. Fatal? No. Met my soul mate three months later. Fabulous? Absolutely.

By: Maggie Robinson

Maggie Robinson — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 22:14:00 +0000

RevM, I can’t access your livejournal blog for some reason. I’d love to come visit. I’ll keep trying, though..I think I did all the slashes and stuff correctly…maybe you can send a direct link to my e-mail at maggierobinson8@yahoo.com

Irisheyes, I didn’t go to my junior prom, even tho I was on the decorating committee. At the last minute this really horrible gross boy asked me but I told him my parents couldn’t afford a dress for me!

By: RevMelinda

RevMelinda — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 19:18:00 +0000

PS Maggie, on the topic of gardening, my 10 year old just won an art contest and will have her “Be A Natural Gardener” billboard displayed in several places in our Home Town. There are pix on my blog at
http://revmelinda.livejournal.com.

Stop by and say hi!

Melinda

By: RevMelinda

RevMelinda — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 19:15:00 +0000

I went to prom–it was a reasonably good time. I had a lovely Jessica McClintock dress (it was the 70′s, sigh) and felt beautiful (even though I had to ask the guy out, and it was gross when he kissed me afterward, and it was the only date I ever went on in high school, LOL).

Keeping realistic expectations about marriage–and someone else’s ability to “make me happy”–has been a big life lesson for me, definitely a growth opportunity (!). I am a romance reader, after all, and I so want to believe in the effortless and problem-free HEA–but I am coming to the understanding that love is not a feeling so much as it is a vocation or a job. That is to say, it’s something I have to do instead of just feel (does this make any sense?)

And that said, I just want to be encouraging to mshellion and terrio and say that, in my experience (married 18 years), physical love just gets better and better when you have a partner you love and trust and share a history with. Definitely romance-novel levels, almost every time–and wow, at our ages, too! (blushing)