I wrote an article not long ago about settling on a name for the personality disorder that we spend our time here talking about. I suggested using “sociopath” as a general term for exploitative people. Many of us have taken to shortening this term to “spath.”
Well, a Lovefraud reader “Justdreamin” informs us that “spath” is taken. She saw it on a flower pot, and sent us the photos.
It turns out that “spath” is a shortened version of “spathiphyllum,” which is the botanical name for the peace lilly, a common houseplant.
We might have to come up with a new name. If I were a beautiful peace lily, I wouldn’t want to share a name with the nasty predators.
hens
oh my
Stargazer
That’s our Oxy, always looking for the lesson and the analogy in everything. 🙂 It’s true. The guy cutting off his own arm to save his life is a perfect analogy for getting away from a spath. You have to cut your losses – no matter how great, no matter how much money, no matter how many years invested – in order to save your life.
Ox Drover
Well, Star, you are right! The guy got himself into the mess in the first place by DOING SOMETHING REALLLLLLLY STOOOOOPID and violating a rule of safety and good sense, and really, don’t most of us one way or another get ourselves into the mess with the psychopaths where we are STUCK and the only way out is to cut off our arms? During any part of that climb until the point he fell and got stuck there he could have WALKED OUT without much loss of anything….but he waited until it was a TERRIBLE situation then he HAD TO CUT HIS ARM OFF to save his life.
I had 100, a 1000 places I could have cut my losses earlier or just not gotten into the REALLLLLY dangerous area but noooooo, I waited until I had to CUT AND RUN before I did anything at all.
Yep, there’s a lesson in there for sure!
Hens, darling, I may have done some stooooooopid things in my life but I ain’t never bought no ticket to see charlie sheen…..never liked him, and don’t plan to.
super chic
hens, I agree, I just heard one man on TV say that he
paid $300 for his ticket !!! ????? DOH!!!
(and he hated the show, $300 down the drain)
Hi Oxy girl !!!
Stargazer
Well, Oxy, at least you don’t corner the market on doing stupid things. LOL There are things about me you’ve never heard and probably never will, out of my embarrassment over my own stupidity.
Stargazer
Regarding Charlie Sheen….one of the great benefits of not having a TV is that I have no idea what he’s doing and I don’t care! Yay! ha ha
hens
Star
Ox Drover
Hens,WHY did you get in the passenger side? Well, once and this was yearrrrrs ago I was parked in a multistory parking garage and I went to my car and put the key in and it wouldn’t open the door, and I tried the other door and so on and on and on,, and you know jwhat…..I was on the wrong floor and it WASN’T MY CAR!!!!!! DUH!!! so don’t feel too bad. I can top whatever you did and raise you two more—except I never ever put anyone’s cell phone in the microwave!!!!! hee hee heee that has got to be a good one darling!
Well, it is getting to be my bedtime so I am gonna go nite nite! You guys keep it between the ditches. (((hugs)))
skylar
Chic,
I read that too. (I don’t watch TV but Charlie is so loud, you can’t escape him) WHY would anyone pay to hear a big mouth run off? But then there’s Howard Stern… so…
Maybe that’s why I’m so depressed recently, maybe I can no longer hide from the fact that this world has ALREADY gone to hell in a handbasket. It’s frightening.
super chic
Maybe that’s why I’m depressed!
I’m trying to think of some of the stupid things I’ve done,
and there have been plenty, but I’m too tired to think.
I’ve been drawing a big blank on everything i think about lately.
Oh well, I’m hanging in there and it’s going to get better!