I spoke to my brother’s girlfriend yesterday, not anything I initiated… technically. I am always promoting different people and their endeavors on my Facebook page. Sometimes people respond and other times they don’t, on this occasion my little brother’s girlfriend responded. My friend owns an event company and she was selling different romantic baskets, my brother’s girlfriend sees them and says she wishes she had someone to give a basket to and I said you do, my brother. Her response was, they are not together anymore. I ask her if she was serious and she said yes, I said the same thing you always say, “Oh I’m sorry to hear that”. I thought the conversation was over…not. I spend the next 30 minutes on Facebook consoling her and giving her a bit of my online dating wisdom.
What I have found about generation X is they are lazy and quick tempered. What I learned from talking to her was, she basically jumped to conclusions about something, went off on my brother (for the last time) and he broke up with her. After she calmed down she realized how ridiculous she behaved and the consequences to her actions and now she is going to die from the heartache. The best advice I could give her was, in the future learn to control your emotions because in the heat of the moment you will say anything and apologies don’t always work. As in this case, he was tired of her always flying off the handle about nothing. He was not interested in hearing apologies anymore and the consequences for her actions are… she is alone and depressed. So ladies, before you decide to fly off the handle, do what Whitley Gilbert did on A Different World and …relax, relate, release!