Take it easy, sweetheart! It is not bad. I enjoy reading other people's blogs even though...maybe I shouldn't. Your blog looks nice and blogs themselves are here, so that we could post there whatever. See? I think I'll add you to my favorites and start checking your blog more often. Hit the road!
Posted by Jano at July 26, 2004 07:55 AMI like your blog...I like your posts. I'd be sad to see you go.
Posted by JosiahQ at July 26, 2004 09:21 AMI totally understand what you are going through. I used to have an anonymous blog (journal really) elsewhere, but wanted to come out of the internet closet. Now that I am out, I wonder what I can really post, especially if I want to rant about something that could hurt someone (say, issues with my mother).
Some people post a disclaimer on their website, asking people that they know to specifically NOT read their posts, because the author wants to be honest in their blog and may hurt someone's feelings. Other disclaimers tell people that if they have a problem with the author's honesty, they should keep it to themselves.
Other people use pseudonyms for their friends/ family so that if internet people don't know the author in real life they can't start stalking the author's friends.
But overall, you have to decide what you want to do and how honestly you want to do it. Starting over can be tricky- especially if you are going from the open relationship to the anonymous one (instead of vice versa, like me).
Just know that there are still people who will be yucky towards you no matter how you go about writing your life on the internet. It is just that in some cases, those people you may actually know in real life.
I say... keep on blogging, and if someone gets their panties or shorts in a twist by reading something on your blog that they think is about them, etc.; then tell them to take a flying leap off a tall bridge.
Seriously if they are any kind of human being, they'll read the whole story (including between the lines) and understand you're just letting off a little steam, you're venting, you're getting it off your chest/shoulders, without resorting to actually doing what you might want to do 99.9% of the time and that's reach out & bitch slap somebody!
If all else fails, just post this little diddy I recently saw on a Bumper Sticker...
"Everyday of my life I add to the list of people who can Kiss My Ass!" :)
That should get the point over... don't you think? ;)
Hang in there Sabrina... you have a lot of people rooting for you. :)
Posted by CJ at July 27, 2004 07:45 AM