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michael Joseph

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I really need to see who my friends are. Please respond if you are my friend. Boundries have been broken now and in the past. I need to see who my friends really are.

Respond if you read my posts and you want to get to know me better. I am actually healing. Things are turning around for the better. I was talking with someone this morning and now I feel better. It is funny how we have answers to our questions.

So I need to see those here who are my friends or want to be.
 
Always, Michael!

I am always here for you, and I am your friend. You've helped save my life, so if that's not a friend, I don't know what is!

And, by the way, I hope I have paid that back in some way.

Peace and love, my friend,

Scot :D
 
Michael Joseph,

I'd like to be considered a friend, have always enjoyed your contributions and you were one of the first people to welcome me to this site at a time when I was really down.

I appreciate that and hope you do consider me a friend.

Take good care,

Aaron
 
Michael, I have no idea whether you consider me a friend or not. We really haven't had much contact. But I would like to share with you how much your poetry has helped me. Your imagery and slashingly honest prose have brought home to me, time and time again, that I am not an island unto myself when it comes to suffering. Thank you. Peace, Andrew
 
Michael, remember the most important person you need as a friend is--yourself. Take good care of yourself. Eat right and exercise. Have good times with your wife. Treat yourself more often to the things you as a couple love to do. Don't work too much. Be your best friend--all others can be a good friend, but no one can be your friend like yourself can.

Starting tomorrow--I am going to do some of the things I just wrote to you! It is easy to write about it, but not so easy to do.

Bob
 
Michael,

Listen to what Bob is telling you. And by now, it is tomorrow relative to the post Bob made.

It is hard to do all these things, so just pick one and do it. Do it for yourself, as a friend to yourself, and let yourself enjoy the luxury of having such a good friend.

In friendship,

Joe
 
Hi Michael ;)

Dave
 
I do not at all know you well, but that does not mean I do not wish to. And even though I sometime am not here for days or even a week, when I do return, I will read and respond to most every post, yours and others. I am not sure what occured, and I am sorry that you have suffered a betrayal. I have dealt with something similar recently, was actually a break of privacy, and it can be very stressful and difficult. I wish you well, and continued success in healing.

leosha
 
I may not know you well, but perhaps in the future we can get to know eachother. Betrayal is a bitter pill to swallow, and is terrible, but you need to trust people, but perhaps need to be selective of who you trust at times.

Scott
 
Hello Michael

Not sure if you remember me. We met at the Conference last year in Livingston Manor, NY.

I am sincerely sorry that you had to endure a broken trust. For the longest time, as in my case I din't know what 'my' boundaries were, OR that i was even had any, in as much as I was never really allowed to have them before. To know and respect your own to me is an accomplishment I applaud you for. I am just sorry someone AGAIN saw fit to dishonor them.

I haven't come or written here much of late, but I would be very honored to be included as one of your friends.

It is a natural reaction, especially in a site like this, that people might feel somehwat pressured to write and tell you that they are your friend. MOST I would think have replied out of what they feel in their heart.

I wonder of those that might not have read your request, who consider themselves your friend and missed the opportunity to state so. Might YOU assume erroneously negativly about them?

To me, within a more natural progression, the bonds of a friendship are not necessarily broken or established merely based on a post. Ands, I am sure you know that. Within the framework of any given frienship, there are ALWAYS going to be ups and downs, good times and bads times.. The 'I love you and I hate you times' those are the bonding experiences that make friendships most durable. I know you were not looking for a distitation on friendships.. but i was taken by the request, and wondered had I missed it would i then be considered not to be you friend. I would most certainly hope not.

A true friendship endures! I hope there are those friends in your life who feel as much for you as you do for them. I know well how this internet world can be cruel. I know that first hand. Deep down, you know who your friends are without them having to say so...

I wish you only the best, and although I do not know you that well, I would hope that our friendship in as much as it isn't as deep as those special one's you deeply cherish, exists in you as it does in me...

Tom
 
tom i am crying, because I wonder if my friend is a friend I am tired of being hurt

I wonder if he knows who he is

if he knows he has hurt me

and that I do love him as a friend

and that this is tearing me apart

I let him in my life, trusted him

I hope I know him well enough to trust

my gut feeling, and that he will still be

my friend when I tell him what my boundries are

one last time. If not I will have to turn and

walk away like I did with my last friend who

verbally and emotionally abused me after we

established what I thought was a great friendship


If others read this and have talked with me,

feel free to respond or PM me. This is the

worst thing that could happen to a survivor.


I thought he was my friend, now I will find out in the next two weeks how things will turn out.
 
((((hugs)))) if okay.

Above all else, right now, please place your trust in YOURSELF, above anyone else. I know that you fear that your emotions will place you in bad position, position to be betrayed again. But I do believe that you are stronger then you feel. You have a good brain, and you can rationally know what you need, and what you do not. Yes, sometime emotions take over for rational thought. But I think that you are aware enough right now to keep yourself safe. Try to feel strong, good and believe in yourself. You are a good, smart man.

leosha
 
MJ:
I think you know that I am a friend, albeit an old one. I feel your pain. Please try and be kind to yourself and be your own best friend. Easy to say and hard to do.

You can PM me any time you want. I really mean that Michael. Can I call you Mike. When I was called Michael I knew I was in trouble or about to be in trouble. My perps used that too "Michael"

((((((((((((((((((((((((MIKE)))))))))))))))))))))
 
I need to remember what it is I really want.

I am upset someone I thought was a great friend is not around. I am glad I did what I had to.
Friends do not put each other in that kind of position.
 
You sound like a really sensitive person that anyone would be lucky to have as a friend.

:D

Lynn
 
michael Joseph,

I agree with Lynn. You are a good person, and you are a very kind person. In your posts you always offer your friendship to those in need. I also agree with Mikey, you need to be your own best friend. Not so easy. I'm working on that one myself.

Mary
 
Hi Michael,
Been away from Board for a while. I hope you'll not be pissed at me as I'm not much for talking on phone.

Still uncomfortable about any relationships.

Hope you're doing well,
Michael in NJ
 
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