I just stopped!
I am intense, I speak my mind, I call out people for their bullshit and I have very low tolerance for jerks. I probably have burnt one too many bridges to go back... I'm at a place and time in my life where I have very little patience for people who are flat out jerks. I don't try anymore with them... I don't give chances. In the past few years, I have realized that I don't have to subject myself to these people/experiences anymore. I am mature enough to choose the people I want hanging around me, I get to pick the ones I would like to keep, as well as those I don't want anywhere near me. Don't get me wrong, I am not a ruthless heartless mean being of a person. Quite the contrary really. I have been the kind, caring, patient, giving, empathetic, selfless person that looks after everyone else first and themselves last... for far too long. And I always thought that because I am like that with others, I expected them to behave the same way towards me. How w...