Quote Originally Posted by bustak View Post
this relationship does smell of an esteem issue, I would explore that further if you could. In life we recruit people to act out certain roles from our earlier childhood, so this woman might represent a female figure from your childhood who wasn't as available as she should of been

I thought the THE FIRST DATE - Early Dec 2006 dialogue was pretty well written IMHO, nice job.
I always believed that when people seek out bad people as partners (Not saying that yours is bad either Scampy),or people that treat them like shite,it means that they are only confirming to themselves their own self loathing etc.