I think the “new” may be starting to wear off a little…he actually annoyed me a tiny bit earlier. Trouble is, I’m not sure that I should have been annoyed.

He was talking about furniture, getting a dresser or chest for his bedroom. Said he knows of this acution place where you can get good stuff at really great prices. I noted that there is a Rooms-to-Go outlet nearby, and he came back with something to the effect of, I want something good, not made of particleboard.

Now, I’ve shopped and even bought things at the RTG outlet, so I think it may have hit me like he thought he was “too good” to shop there. At any rate, I was rubbed the wrong way and he could tell. I told him that he was responding to “nearly everything I said” with negativity. The moment passed and we stayed on the phone a little while longer, laughing and teasing as usual. We chatted online a little later, and when I apologized for “jumping” on him he didn’t even know what I meant. So, no harm done, obviously.

I wonder, though, if this is not an issue of mine. At some point or another, nearly every man I’ve carried on a relationship with has caused me to feel “shot down,” for lack of a better word…their idea is/was better than mine. That this has happend more than once is more than a coincidence, I think.

Could this be me, my issue entirely? Am I altogether too sensitive? Is it me, or…what?