My wife has lost about $500 with ebay in two separate auctions. After being enamored with the idea of ebay, she says she will never use it again. The first time the seller sent a piece of junk that was supposed to be the item, but was rusted out. My wife returned it to the seller who then took her money and the rusted item and ran. She couldn't get ebay or paypal to do jack... plust the seller spread the time out with promises... The second time similar thing... The seller got their money, shipped a defective item and claimed that we broke it. The stupid thing on our part is that we didn't use insurance on the return trip because it was broken and he said that was what caused it to break... Took out money and ran... I will still buy stuff on ebay because I will stay on top of it, but my wife won't anymore. Oh well, chalk it up to learning experiences...;|
When I was in college, I used to tutor Physics and math and based on informal surveys I used to do on people, I came up with a pretty decent (at least in my mind) theory. Being that math is a cumulative subject, most people stop learning math at some point in their academic careers when they encounter a teacher that can't communicate the concepts to them in a way they understand. All it takes is one bad teacher to screw it up for them for good (depending on their willingness to try to catch up). Most people I encountered had that bad teacher and stopped learning math at that point. It made it so much harder to catch up to everyone else and eventually they gave up until they got to college and had to take algebra to graduate with their major. I suggest making sure that they simply don't fall behind in math and they will be ok. They don't have to be math wizzes, just make sure they don't fall behind. They decide for sure what they want to do when they get older. One thing to remember is that many times your children will head exactly in the opposite direction of where it seems like they should head based on genetics/environment. I've always known that I wanted to be a scientist, but I'm a strange duck!
I understand. Trust me I understand! The best thing to do right now is to put a lot of your energy into other things in your life like work. It'll keep your mind off of her and allow your heart time to heal. Trust me, if she cheated, then she isn't worth your heart-ache. She would have cheated whether you had been around or not. What she did was selfish and jacked up. She was dishonest to you and if you were sleeping together (and she slept with the other dude) she took your life in jeopardy. As soon as you can, get your pole ready and start casting again because there are more and better fish in the sea.
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My wife has lost about $500 with ebay in two separate auctions. After being enamored with the idea of ebay, she says she will never use it again. The first time the seller sent a piece of junk that was supposed to be the item, but was rusted out. My wife returned it to the seller who then took her money and the rusted item and ran. She couldn't get ebay or paypal to do jack... plust the seller spread the time out with promises... The second time similar thing... The seller got their money, shipped a defective item and claimed that we broke it. The stupid thing on our part is that we didn't use insurance on the return trip because it was broken and he said that was what caused it to break... Took out money and ran... I will still buy stuff on ebay because I will stay on top of it, but my wife won't anymore. Oh well, chalk it up to learning experiences... ;|
When I was in college, I used to tutor Physics and math and based on informal surveys I used to do on people, I came up with a pretty decent (at least in my mind) theory. Being that math is a cumulative subject, most people stop learning math at some point in their academic careers when they encounter a teacher that can't communicate the concepts to them in a way they understand. All it takes is one bad teacher to screw it up for them for good (depending on their willingness to try to catch up). Most people I encountered had that bad teacher and stopped learning math at that point. It made it so much harder to catch up to everyone else and eventually they gave up until they got to college and had to take algebra to graduate with their major. I suggest making sure that they simply don't fall behind in math and they will be ok. They don't have to be math wizzes, just make sure they don't fall behind. They decide for sure what they want to do when they get older. One thing to remember is that many times your children will head exactly in the opposite direction of where it seems like they should head based on genetics/environment. I've always known that I wanted to be a scientist, but I'm a strange duck!
I understand. Trust me I understand! The best thing to do right now is to put a lot of your energy into other things in your life like work. It'll keep your mind off of her and allow your heart time to heal. Trust me, if she cheated, then she isn't worth your heart-ache. She would have cheated whether you had been around or not. What she did was selfish and jacked up. She was dishonest to you and if you were sleeping together (and she slept with the other dude) she took your life in jeopardy. As soon as you can, get your pole ready and start casting again because there are more and better fish in the sea.