Rejection number 113

[lethargic_man]

"A Meddling In The Affairs Of Wizards", from Aeon. "We enjoyed reading this one, but it isn't quite what we're looking for." *sigh* Submission number 127 will have to wait until Sunday, though.

Comments

[liv]

She'll change her mind. She's young. By the time she's thirty five she'll want kids.
I really hope you are not talking about me here. Really.

(Even if you're not, that's a pretty dangerous assumption to make, but there are other reasons why I hope my guess is wrong.)

[lethargic-man.livejournal.com]

This is what I was telling you about: I can tell people until I'm blue in the face that you're not going to change your mind, and they still won't hear it. But the important thing is that I do... and I rate the opinion of someone who's known you for over three years (to wit, myself) above people who've never met you at all.

[liv]

I do appreciate your believing me, thank you.

However, aside from the question of whether Pnina is sensible to make judgements about me without having met me... I think you might want to think about how soon it's a good idea to turn the conversation to me not wanting to have children, when you meet someone for the first time. I strongly suspect it's not going to make a good first impression. Now, I'm not saying you should hide your history with me, far from it, just that there are other topics to talk about when you're first getting to know someone.

Not that I know anything much about this sort of thing, but my guess is that you could stand to be more tactful.

[lethargic-man.livejournal.com]

I didn't intend to get onto that subject. I'm not even sure why I did (I think it probably involved having to explain why I split up with someone who I was portraying as otherwise extremely well suited for me), but I got myself into the sort of situation where I'd talked myself into a corner, and couldn't abort the thread halfway through. And you know how difficult those are to predict and avert in advance.