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Mandy21:
--- Quote from: ifyoucantfixit on May 02, 2012, 03:24:22 pm ---
I am terribly sorry Mandy. I too know what that can be like. Not in my marriage. My father was like that. He was
one of those people that sounded exactly like Mel Gibson, when on a rant.
I told my husband before we married. If you evet get a notion for such behavior, I have this to say. "you have to
sleep sometime." I don't advise you sleep very soundly in case you ever do that.. He doesn't do it, nor would
I have ever tolerated such..
--- End quote ---
Oh dear me, sorry, Janice, I didn't mean that at all. I would never, ever stand for violence in a relationship. What I meant was that *I* spent every day knocking my own head against a wall, fighting my frustrations at trying to help someone I loved who didn't want to be helped. In the end, his actions killed him. I'm terribly sorry if you had to go through violent times with your own father. That would be utterly devastating.
ifyoucantfixit:
Don't worry about me. I am fine. The hurt was most effective on my two brothers. I had a constitution that allowed me to
overcome most every obstacle that life has ever placed in front of me. I wish they had been as stubborn headed as me.
ifyoucantfixit:
numen \NOO-min\, noun:
Divine power, especially one who inhabits a particular object.
This “liquid” flowing up his arm and out of the other was numen, the divine substance, the sacred spirit that lives in a certain place in the body and sustains us all.
-- Jonathan Carroll, White Apples
He was now fairly confident that a shrine, unlike a temple, would contain no resident numen.
-- Dave Duncan, Present Tense (Round Two of the Great Game)
Numen is derived from the Latin word nūmen meaning "a nod, command, or divine will or power."
ifyoucantfixit:
fulcrum \FOOL-kruhm\, noun:
1. The support, or point of rest, on which a lever turns.
2. Any prop or support.
3. Zoology. Any of various structures in an animal serving as a hinge or support.
verb:
1. To fit with a fulcrum; put a fulcrum on.
An equal partnership is like a see-saw that sits on a fulcrum. There is a balance of power when one partner gives in and then the other does likewise.
-- Shirley Gunstream Poland, Hearing the Silent Cries
A storm of plans, each one trying to make me into a fulcrum.
-- Steven Erikson, Memories of Ice
Fulcrum originally referred to a bed post from the Latin word fulcire meaning "to prop up."
ifyoucantfixit:
besot \bih-SOT\, verb:
1. To infatuate; obsess.
2. To intoxicate or stupefy with drink.
3. To make stupid or foolish: a mind besotted with fear and superstition.
We mustn't besot ourselves with big words like independence and sovereignty. We must begin with small concrete tasks.
-- Piotr Rawicz and Peter Wiles, Blood from the Sky
He tried to appear as besot with her as he was with her father's power and money.
-- Judith Pella and Tracie Peterson, A Hope Beyond
The prefix be was used in Middle English to denote verbs, as in the contemporary words become and befriend. The word sot referred to an alcoholic.
* This is the perfect word for how I am about Adam...Besotted... I admit it. No shame to me..
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