wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "shempmcgurk" <shempmcgurk@>
> wrote:
> >
> > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer
> > <fairfieldlife@> wrote:
> > >
> > > on 5/19/06 11:48 PM, shempmcgurk at shempmcgurk@ wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Part of the reason that I use "Shemp McGurk" (aside from the
> > fact that
> > > > it really is a cool moniker if one is to have an alias) is
for
> > the
> > > > reasons you state above but also because I don't want to
> > be "shunned"
> > > > by people in the TMO who ARE hard and fast cult members but
> that
> > I do
> > > > love and will not be welcome as their friends if ever I was
> > identified.
> > > >
> > > Imagine my position, living in FF and having started FFL.
> > Interestingly,
> > > there are certain "hard and fast" TMOers who have proven
> > themselves to be
> > > "true blue" friends by not changing their behavior towards me.
> > Some are in
> > > high positions at MUM. I've enjoyed having my friends sorted
out
> > for me that
> > > way.
> > >
> >
> > I guess it separated the men from the boys.
> >
> > Did you "lose" some people as friends that you didn't want to
> lose?
> > And did it hurt?
>
> It always hurts to recognize that people you like
> are jerks. But ultimately, you're glad you found out.
>
But what if you knew they were jerks? But liked them anyway?
I think it is, like you mentioned before, a cost-benefit trade-off:
risk losing them as friends versus acknowledging and accepting their
jerkiness.
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