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Originally Posted by Rose of Cairo  Last week I attended a workshop about being self-employed and starting a business. It was interesting, I learned a lot, and today I had an appointment with the teacher, a coach, to discuss my situation. He was horrified....
He said that I'm legally and financially getting scr*wd in the arrangement I have with my bf, I mean my ex, about the appt we share. And regarding taxes even more. He can't understand that I blindly trust people and that I consciously stay in a financially disadvantageous situation because of some moral considerations. He called me a SHEEP and said he doesn't know if he should laugh or cry at my greenness.
Uuuhh... *blush* *shame* mah-ah-ah... |
You handle that very well. I recently...I have a situation and...in my whole life, I haven't been called "naive" as much as I have just in the past couple months, each time by a new person, none of whom know each other. After about the 100th time, I began to feel bad about it and stupid for being so trusting. They told me I'm too trusting and naive and over and over that I have to be mistrustful of people because they are taking advantage of me. They say these things to me as if it's a bad thing to be trusting and as if I'm the one in the wrong, for being stupid or something and I must know better.
To be fair, for what its worth, men have also been attracted to me, they have said, because I have a sincere and honest appearance. Not much of a plus, since they are the opposite of sincere and honest.
In secret, I guess I'm proud of my "naivety" and I don't want to be like them.