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Cherry

By GlosKat

Mon, 22 Jun 2026
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I hide my feelings

From you - so as not to hurt yours

From me – so I don't have to face them

So that's all right then

Maybe two wrongs do make a right.

For a while.

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Comments

Submitted by insertponceyfre... on

That is an excellent response to the IP - well done GlosKat!

 

Submitted by GlosKat on

Thank you Claudine, and thank you for the cherries.

I've certainly been there, frightened of rocking the boat, hiding behind the excuse of not wanting to hurt the other person.

Big thunderstorm here !  

 

 

Submitted by insertponceyfre... on

Oh really? It's just hot hot hot here. Hope your garden survives the rain!

 

Submitted by celticman on

common-sense. 

 

Submitted by Di_Hard on

Thank You for your IP response, Gloskat, packing an hour's drama in 6 lines!

 

Submitted by GlosKat on

Thanks Di !

 

Submitted by Turlough on

And sometimes the other person in the relationship is doing exactly the same thing. It's so funny how we don't talk anymore. It's so sad how we daren't listen. So many things missed because of a you never said.

Turlough

Submitted by GlosKat on

Hello Turlough nice to see you back. 

I think it's a tricky one.  Is honesty always the best policy ?  Is it just a small bump in a  long term relationship which will sort itself out if not poked about ?  Is a fundamental problem which needs addressing ?  

I'm conscious that things said can't be unsaid. But the IP did make me think about what we hide and why.

 

 

Submitted by Turlough on

You're right Kat, it's a very tricky one. I think the policy depends upon the personality of the person we're dealing with. And it's not always at a stage in a long term relationship that such things happen. Something unsaid could even prevent the start of a relationship. It's all tricky.

I used to want to be a train driver or a space man, but now I want to be a psychoanalyst.

Turlough

Submitted by GlosKat on

It also depends on that person's relationship with themselves - some people can take constructive criticism and some can't.  So many variables !

I seem to be stuck permanently in analysis mode, I often wish I wasn't.  Can come in handy (I'm a good proofreader and it was useful in my IT career) but a bit of a mixed blessing.

And I wanted to be a train driver too, but girls just didn't do that back in my day.  Ditto when I wanted a Meccano set.  However I'm pleased to say I have a female friend who used to be a train driver for GWR, so there are a few of then about now.

 

 

Submitted by Turlough on

It’s a shame neither of us got to be train drivers. We might have met up sometime at a staff Christmas party or a team building event. I gave up on train driving when I started thinking about becoming a lighthouse keeper, or a level crossing attendant in the days when they opened and closed the gates (not barriers) manually, or the operator of one of those little ferries on a rope that cross the sort of river you might see in a John Constable painting.

My plan for the last ten years has been to never take up any sort of employment and so far it’s going well.

I never had Meccano either. When I was a wean in Middlesbrough it was too similar to what went on at the mucky steelworks up the road from where we lived. And my mother used to tell me that things were dangerous when really her and my da just couldn’t afford to buy them. Even ice cream from the Mr Whippy van was said to be dangerous during the long black summer of ‘63.

Turlough

Submitted by Nolan on

Rather come out with it with the whole business and shout the truth from the rooftops, the road to hell is paved with hidden assumptions &&