In response to Daily Post “Secret Admirers”
You return home to discover a huge flower bouquet waiting for you, no card attached. Who is it from — and why did they send it to you?
I’ve had my shares of secret admirer back in my time. They were more on the stalker side than the admiring actually.
I’ve had a man who “admired me” for several years leaving me poems, roses and displays of great love wherever I went. When I refused or asked for him not to do those things, he’d become rude and violent.
I’ve had one that used to stalk me by car. Wherever I would be, there he was, in his green car. One time he left me a love letter stating that I was a flower in his garden or something like that.
I had another one that used to call me at my parents’ landline and used to ask what I was wearing.
In a nutshell, if I discover a flower bouquet that wasn’t sent by my boyfriend, I would burn it without hesitance. I don’t care who sent it or where it came from. Please leave me alone.
The cartoons were cute. I’m sorry that you had such bad experiences. I hope that you’ll continue to feel safe.
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Thanks 🙂 Now it’s fine. It was not fine back then and I avoided doing a lot of stuff, but that’s a whole new story for other posts 🙂
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I’m glad to hear that you’re okay now.
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Reblogged this on Lost Dudeist Astrology and commented:
Happens to guys, too. Happens on the internet, too. Happens to guys on the internet, too.
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It’s scary actually how often this happens. Thanks for your opinion and reblogging. 🙂
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You are completely on target with that. On the ‘net, it really does not matter if you are male or female, young or old, or much of anything else. If a weirdo becomes preoccupied (and abusive) with you, it is a real problem.
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Being behind a computer is heaven for weirdo or just curious of the weirdness side of life. It like it’s Full Moon every day. We can just sit back and listen to the howls. It doesn’t really matter who you are.
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And, I am OK with weirdness. I advocated for Free Speech, and I think a little weirdness and variety is necessary to drive the innovation that keeps the U.S. Strong. I will defend that any day, and that is one of my key issues. What bothers me is when people start stepping over the line with harassment of individuals and personal attacks. THAT is not OK. That starts to become every closer to “yelling fire in a crowded theater.”
See, also:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shouting_fire_in_a_crowded_theater
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I’m fine with most of weirdness also. Not this kind though.
Didn’t know about the “shouting fire in a crowded theater”. Thanks 🙂
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Certain limits to Free Speech exist. Shouting “fire” is one. Copyright is another.
http://www.jstor.org/stable/pdfplus/3480033
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Thanks for that 🙂
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Certainly! Enjoyed the discussion.
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Spooky! Hope you are a fiction writer. A good read.
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Unfortunately I’m really not a fiction writer 🙂 Thanks for reading.
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