Octavia Hansen

Games Men And Woman Play



Posted: Friday, December 23, 2011

by Octavia Hansen
Octavia Hansen

      Oh, you know, men and women have always played games. Some play better than others. Some people are so serious that they play but they have no fun. Some games can be incredibly complicated, to win or lose sometimes means their whole world. Some people play a lot of games. Some people only play once and then think that's all there is to the games and the world. As in all things, some of it's right, some of it's wrong . . . how do you play?

The most popular games are:

I'm really interested in you but I'm not acting interested in you so you'll think I'm cool.

I'm married/in a relationship but I want to see what's out there.

I'm really an alley cat and just want a lot of mindless sex so I'll pretend I'm interested.

I'm really shallow and need an audience, anything else bores me.

I'm so interested I'll be stalking you in another half hour.

I really hate men/women but I don't want to be gay.

My last boy/girl friend treated me really badly so that gives me every right to treat you the same.

My last boy/girl friend treated me really well so I'll remind you of that every chance I get.

I really hate men/women but I will alternate liking you so you'll like me just so later I can hate you.

As long as I keep you off balance, you'll think that awkward feeling is love.

I'm really an emotional basket case and as soon as you show any interest I'll cling to you like a strangling vine.

I really need professional psychiatric help but I'm too cheap to go, so I'll make you listen to all the boring details of my life because you're too nice to tell me to shut up.

I'm lazy and spineless and I'm already with someone, even though I don't like them,  but the living arrangements/money is so good that I just want to fool around with you, and they won't know.

I'm a lazy user and don't want to work so I'll attach myself to you until someone else comes along.

I'm an ex-con/newly divorced asshole who just needs your place to crash.

I'm young and need more sexual experience so I can really impress someone I really like, not you, later in my life.

I'm actually a religious fanatic and need someone to preach to so it won't sound like I'm yelling at myself.

I'm so religious that whatever I do is perfect and I can treat you as an inferior as long as I know you.

I'm religious but I can forgive myself because I'm sinning with a non-believer so it doesn't really count against me, only you. By the way, I can never forgive you.

I demand honesty, loyalty and fair play but I don't actually practice this in my job, my life or my relationships.

I feel bad about myself so if I make you feel bad about yourself, I feel better.

There's always something wrong but you have to guess what it is.

I'm happy but you are unhappy. There must be something wrong with you.

Nothing you do will ever be as important as what I want to do.

And a few hundred variations upon these themes.

These are all just games . . . learn to recognize these people, and when you do . . . RUN LIKE HELL!
Octavia (Yes, that's her real name!) is a busy gal in Las Vegas, NV. From New York City parents and Texas birth, she began in the best of both worlds, literate and comical. Extensive US family travel in her younger years, now she's on her third passport and numerous cars driven to pieces in the name of wanderlust. The Big O settled in Las Vegas, which she compares to running away to join the circus - IT'S FUN! Comedy and alternative thinking come easily. When she's not writing, she sings, she writes songs, produces her own CDs, attracted to shiny objects, looks stunning at renaissance festivals across the country and is only stopped by lack of time for all the projects she has in mind. What a woman!
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Top-level comments on this article: (2 total)
» left by Christofer French
 126 days 10 hours ago.
73 fans.
Superlative Hansen. You kind of have to worry about outdoing yourself, but that is not the kind of thing you would think about. That's what makes you good.
» left by Octavia Hansen 126 days 5 hours ago.
20 fans.
Hey, after 25 years of dating, I have a lot to draw from. If I can stop one heart from breaking, or make someone laugh after the ax falls, then maybe I've helped. I think I should get a gold watch for my services rendered . . . or at least combat pay!
» left by Christofer French 125 days 15 hours ago.
73 fans.
You have done much for humanity!
» left by krainium from washington 108 days 20 hours ago.
Don't forget the: I really like you so I'm going to hold onto you for the future but in the meantime I'm doing me person!
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