Oh no! I'm sorry! I honestly forgot. After I put that small answer in, it stopped alerting me. I'll answer.

Apologies, EM!!

Negatory.

Not ignoring!! Will answer. More time, please. It's a good question.

Fuck yes.

"Balls."

As in, "Hey, your house is on fire..." "Oh, balls!"

Thanks!

I would want to read people's minds. I would want to know what they were thinking and would use that power to fix people. Like "The Listener".

The answer to this is on my blog as well. http://markadamhfx.wordpress.com

First off, I’d like to apologize for the delay in answering this question. It was asked 4 weeks ago, so to the asker, I say sorry.

Now, this is really a very personal question. I’m going to avoid using names and place a few guidelines out first.

To begin with I’m going to exclude the most recent relationship. It’s length and level of seriousness means that it’s still sitting pretty close and I’m not really interested in opening that up. Also, realize that I’m not interested in pursuing a relationship with this person… just answering a question.

The one that ‘got away’ was a girl I was with in High School. We dated for only 7 months or so, but at the time, it felt like such a long time. I really loved her (or as far as my understanding of ‘love’ was at the time, I did). She was pretty, smart, artistic, and super talented with her drawings. For some reason she really liked me back.

Unfortunately, at the time I happened to be a 17 year old boy with hormones on crack. There were other girls that liked me, and I thought there were a few I liked as well. I figured ‘if I have these feelings for other girls, how can I really love my girlfriend?’ Too stupid to realize the hormones were just screwing with me, I broke up with this girl. I was young and foolish, and it cost me a great girl.

All that said, I’m not moving toward or even entertaining the though of chasing that girl now, but I do sometimes (but very rarely) wonder how things might have been different if I hadn’t been a stupid hormone-led 17 year old, and had worked through those feelings of doubt and confusion.

Hope that gives you the answer you were looking for, asker.

M A

Working on that answer. It's half written. :) sorry about the delay. It's coming!

No thanks. Have a nice life...

Well, I'm not sure what point of view you have, but I'm glad it helped.

I would say that yes, some of my Christian "friends" do treat me differently now. It's natural to treat someone differently when their habits change. My habits changed a lot. I don't go to church, I live with a girl I'm not married to, and I think I'm better for it.

When I went to church, I look back and see me doing things I am very ashamed of. My relationships were not all very healthy. There were a few, I must say, that I wish I could have now, but I realize that moving forward means that sometimes you have to leave things behind.

At the end of what I call my "Christian era" I was looking for something that wasn't there. I was acting like my life was almost over and like I needed certain things to happen soon or I'll have failed. This was, obviously, not the case. I wanted things so badly I pretended they were there when they weren't. Things like happiness, and things like love.

Then, I met a girl. A wonderful, amazing girl. She didn't pressure me. Not to go to church, not to avoid church. She wanted to know me. She wanted to know who I was. That's when I realized that I didn't know who I was.

So I spent some time just being me. Finding out who I was. The more I thought about it, the more I realized that the church, while great in many ways and by far one of the best influences on my life, was not really my long term home. I needed to move on.

So, do they treat me differently? Yes. And who can blame them? But... was it difficult? I would have to say it was the easiest, most natural thing in my world.

M A

If you've ever been to Halifax, you'll know it's a different kind of place. We like to do things differently here. Plus... "Halifaxians" just doesn't have that ring to it, you know?

He's there to promote the Oasis' chicken wings. They're kind of a big deal.