My friend works a crazy schedule so I'm constantly asking if he's getting enough rest. I hardly bother him because I feel he could be resting instead of visiting me, talking, texting etc.
If I come across a good deal, or something he mentions he likes I'll get it for him. Small things of course. He said I smelled good the last time I saw him, so I bought two bars of the shea butter Dove soap I used. A while back they had a good deal..coupons on the Nivea body wash for men. I got him a few along with my uncle and cousin.
I worked with my Cap friend, and between the two of us we stay with headaches. Anytime he'd come over to my desk, and I'd have to leave to go get him Excedrin. Im mean to him lol, but if he's sick it bothers me and I take care of him. He calls me grandma...
I mother everybody though. I skipped work today because my mom isn't feeling well.
i treat them like i do my female friends, but i instinctively get them things they wouldn't ordinarily think about. and i will make them foodstuffs as well. my girlfriends don't get that because they handle that already.
I'm very nurturing to all my friends, especially my male friends. I think be the relationships them is more intimate even if we are not dating or never had sex. Just yesterday, I was concerned about my friend working too hard and not getting enough sleep. Poor thing kept falling asleep while we talking on the phone last night.
my gf/bestie 12/24 is very mothering. it kinda annoys me, i can't lie. and i'm sure it annoys me because she and i are so similar in our self-sufficiency and independence. bless her heart. and the way i define "mothering" is the annoying bossy and kinda forceful care. which she definitely does. perhaps i have the wrong idea about it, but that's how my mom is. lol still! @.@
it comes from a great place, absolutely, but at the same time??_ let people make up their own minds.
i definitely care for my friends when i know they are in need and i can actually help, but i'm not willful or forceful about it. i make my offer, i make my sentiments known about what i think may help them??_ i let them decide if they'll let me do that for them. so yea.. i have a very very nurturing side to me.
in some cases when i know my friends just don't even know how to ask for the help that they need??_ i def just go ahead and take the reigns.
If a guy friend (most of them are also co-workers) says he's tired or even looks tired/upset about anything I'll ask if he's ok, etc, then offer to help with their work and then insist they go home and rest.
The Virgos eat it up, the Pisces are confused by it, and my Aqua friend tries to man up/let me know there's no need to worry about him. All very cute, their reactions.
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Do you have a tendency to mother your male friends?