02-07-2015, 01:57
Recently I made this post in another thread about my 4+ years of private communication with a presenter and its eventual acrimonious dissolution and this was one of the replies...
Fair point but, even though I didn't realise it at first, that "other side of the industry which very few of us know much about" is equally opaque to me. To this day I still have absolutely no idea why that person chose to start telling me about their problems and asking me for advice about their personal life and, presumably, I never will. I also have no idea why she decided to tell me that, after 4+ years, she suddenly felt awkward and uncomfortable talking to me privately and wanted to stop writing without thanking me, let alone acknowledge the decision that I made purely for her benefit, and keep those reasons to herself. Call me deluded if you wish but I think I deserved better treatment than that.
So I have started this thread to discuss all issues relating to talking privately with the presenters [about personal matters/relationship stuff] on the forum or social media. Your experiences of it or advice on whether or how to avoid it happening to you. Let's be honest here - I cannot be the only person this has happened to in over seven years of this forum's existence. I also should add that, I'll try to be as open and honest as I can about my experiences, there will be things that I'm not going to discuss on this thread - for personal reasons.
Important: I also need to remind forum members that posting quotes from Private Messages [PMs] is against forum policy and will be removed by the moderating team.
Of course, if you'd rather make fun of me [for wanting to talk about "feelings" with a woman] or ask me why I didn't send her a photo of my penis - that will work too.
(09-06-2015 04:57 )Scottishbloke Wrote: [ -> ]Nonetheless very good insight into the other side of the industry which very few of us know much about.
Fair point but, even though I didn't realise it at first, that "other side of the industry which very few of us know much about" is equally opaque to me. To this day I still have absolutely no idea why that person chose to start telling me about their problems and asking me for advice about their personal life and, presumably, I never will. I also have no idea why she decided to tell me that, after 4+ years, she suddenly felt awkward and uncomfortable talking to me privately and wanted to stop writing without thanking me, let alone acknowledge the decision that I made purely for her benefit, and keep those reasons to herself. Call me deluded if you wish but I think I deserved better treatment than that.
So I have started this thread to discuss all issues relating to talking privately with the presenters [about personal matters/relationship stuff] on the forum or social media. Your experiences of it or advice on whether or how to avoid it happening to you. Let's be honest here - I cannot be the only person this has happened to in over seven years of this forum's existence. I also should add that, I'll try to be as open and honest as I can about my experiences, there will be things that I'm not going to discuss on this thread - for personal reasons.
Important: I also need to remind forum members that posting quotes from Private Messages [PMs] is against forum policy and will be removed by the moderating team.
Of course, if you'd rather make fun of me [for wanting to talk about "feelings" with a woman] or ask me why I didn't send her a photo of my penis - that will work too.