Oh *amn! I relate to Jennifer Aniston!!

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Oh *amn! I relate to Jennifer Aniston!!
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Thu, 02-21-2008 - 2:29pm

My post could triggers fears about being single so don't read if you are feeling sensitive in this way....


I was in Rite Aid today and I quickly checked out a front page article on Jennifer Aniston.

Soliel

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Thu, 02-21-2008 - 3:34pm

I feel her pain too, I feel the pain of a lot of women in their 30's who thought life would turn out better than it actually did.

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Thu, 02-21-2008 - 11:50pm
Wow, I'm glad I didn't see that magazine article. Do they not realize that we humans like to have quiet evenings at home too? Do they think that makes us bad or miserable? Sheesh. I sometimes look forward to a quiet evening at home. After the kind of week I have had, with my mother being in the hospital due to bleeding ulcers & three blood transfusions, working on-call doing the night shift, leaving my apt around 6am to go to the house and take care of the animals, staying there and getting a few hours of sleep, leaving the house around 4ish to make it back to my apt by 6pm to pick up on-call for another 12 hours.....yeah, I'm glad my boss called me after picking my mother up from the hospital today and he told me he would work my on-call shift tonight and for me to get rest. So I had a quiet evening when I got home. I turned on the tube, picked up a little bit around my apartment, and read a little bit. And truth be told, I will have another quiet evening tomorrow, just to get caught up on much needed rest, sleep, and relaxation. Of course I'm having fondue w/friends Sat night, but it's perfectly ok to have a quiet evening at home :-)
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Fri, 02-22-2008 - 12:01pm

It must be hard to be Jennifer Aniston...I mean being famous and the lack of privacy.

Soliel
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Fri, 02-22-2008 - 1:20pm

If Jennifer Aniston was actually

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Sat, 02-23-2008 - 2:41pm

Everyone wants you to be 20-something. I must admit, I'm a little bit afraid of that, myself. I'm lucky to be in my early-30s but I know that won't last forever. What is she now? 39? Okay, we're at opposite ends. But I can still feel a little bit of what she's feeling, at least in matters of the heart. It is harder for women now. Unless you count the pretty, underweight, over-feminine whorish types. But, what do they really want? I can't imagine them being happy with the FB thing. But that's not me....

However, I can't imagine how she feels, having no privacy at all. I crave privacy. Without it, I would fall apart. I do think that female celebrities are scritinized far more than regular women. Even a pretty, famous woman with some meat on her bones will receive harsher criticism than an everyday woman who is bigger than her, more plain than her, and basically unstylish. And the average woman who is average in every way may have an easier time getting a man than a woman like Jennifer Aniston who has little time to herself.

But this isn't about plain versus beautiful. This is about age. But I feel that I should throw something else into this situation: Dating is harder for disabled women than for disabled men. Once, I had thought that a disabled man would have a harder time since the man has to figuratively be better, to get a date. Apparently not. So, how will this affect me, in five years?

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Sun, 02-24-2008 - 3:00pm

Thank you for mentioning the disabled issue.

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Mon, 02-25-2008 - 3:21am
I tend to think of the media as an evil, faceless entity built on causing others anguish by confusing them into believing something that is unachieveable. If the media were a human, he/she would be a spoiled brat who is so conceited as to think "I must like/hate this, so everyone must like/hate this". It kind of reminds me of the Queen of Hearts in Disney's "Alice in Wonderland". Always, it's the queen's way. And much chaos ensues.
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Mon, 02-25-2008 - 12:31pm

I feel like it is talking about my life as well, however, it is better to go home and have a relaxing evening by yourself, than to go home to an abusive husband / boyfriend who makes your life miserable.

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Mon, 02-25-2008 - 5:27pm
I just wanted to take a moment and tell you my story. I am going to be 39 in a few months and I have been married for 3 years. I thought the same way you did and one day just after my 35th bday I said to myself, "Self, I am destined to be single and live with my parents for the rest of my life. I don't know what I did to make my life this way, but, I don't know what else to do." About a month later, I was on the internet and I had gotten an email for Yahoo Personals (this is not an add for them and it is not for everyone either! It just happened to work for me). I deleted it thinking that you only meet psycho's this way! That email haunted me for about a month! I finally went to the site and checked it out. Next thing I knew I had a profile and was looking through the men that had profile's on there. I looked at one that had a 32 question questionaire on it and I kept looking at the photo thinking "he looks familiar"(turns out I didn't know him at all from anywhere!). I answered all his questions and sent them to him. He wrote me back and liked my answers then I asked him to answer all the same questions (to this day, he says that asking all those questions backfired on him)!! We talked on the internet for a month and exchanged phone #'s. We talked on the phone for another

Smile!

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Tue, 02-26-2008 - 5:46pm

I just saw this link on another board on the bottom where it says, People are talking about....


I just had to post. I think if it was an In Touch magazine or something like that it is totally fabricated. I'm sure Jennifer A. is a great person and all that, but if she wants a guy that's single I'm 99% sure she could get him. She must have other issues, abandonment issues, whatever.


It's not bad to spend nights at home. If you ran out every night you'd burn the candle at both ends and look like *%*#

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