People! People Who Need People!

Like: To have a taste or fondness for; be pleased with; have a preference for; enjoy.


Generally speaking, I don't like other people. While this may sound like a character defect, it is important to note that when I was drinking I didn't like any people. I wasn't speaking generally at that point. I was speaking specifically. It actually made my interpersonal relationships pretty easy. You didn't have to wonder whether or not I liked you. I didn't even have to know you. I could work up a great distaste by the car that you drove or the restaurants that you frequented.


In one of the great ironies of life, it was very important that you liked me. I'm a people pleaser with a tremendous need to be loved who can't stand anyone. I wanted you to draw close and show your love so that I could work up a bad taste in my life and push you away. I would immediately seek out someone else that I didn't like and rip you a new pie hole behind your back. I saw no contradiction in this kind of behavior.

Today I'm proud to announce that I only dislike about 85% of the human race.