expect Shinji16 To anticipate, to see coming, or to fear 011021 ... User24 if you are expected to suceed, no-one will congratulate you when you do. Congratulations are a sign of surprise, If no-one is surprised when you suceed, be flattered. 020410 ... girl_jane I don't think I expect too much from him. Gracious-he's my father. Shouldn't he at least follow through with his promises? I suppose that'd be too much to expect from him. 020519 ... kay-tie i sit in here in vain expecting him to call me up and tell me he made a huge mistake and im the one he's meant to be with. time for me to wake up.... it's time to move on 040405 ... freeasharold Am I expecting too much when I tell him the truth when I ask for priorities 040524 ... no reason i'm trying not to expect anything that i probably won't get it's not a great feeling but i guess it's better than disappointment 100426 ... no reason i don't expect anything anymore 100426 ... Risen There is nothing else that I can expect. It isn't about me, it never is. It's about guilt and shame and regret that she didn't have more fun while she was playing hooky from her real life. I am broken as hell, sure. But my being broken this far is not the result of a woman. I am not that fragile. I refuse to be treated as though I am. Someone with zero idea what's been going on in my life doesn't get to say what's broken me. And they certainly don't get to try to assuage their faux guilt for a faux crime by returning to exactly the same pattern and expecting... I don't even know what. "I know I was really withdrawn, and you never knew when I was going to be available, and I controlled every single moment we conversed... but here.." Reminding me of exactly how it felt to wait around for someone, to refresh a page, to try to figure out if it's what I said, or just that there's something more important to do, like literally everything else. I can't believe I used to consider this torture. But then, I was a novice at torture, really. Now I know real suffering, I don't need to add this to it. 170602 ... Notunknown Point listened to, understood, and taken. And I'm gone. 170602 what's it to you? who go blather from