Do you have frenemies? What about a nemesis?
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I think I have one frenemy. Luckily, I don't have to deal with her much.
@ des!: I think every girl has at least one.
@ Art: That's the best way to deal with them. Avoidance. That, and also never telling them when anything happy happens to you. They just get awkward.
I do.
I was best friends with this girl from the time we were 2 years old up until 2 years ago. She flipped out on me and told me to never call her again. She said our lives were going in different directions and the fact that I called her to say happy birthday was borderline harassment(more like borderline personality disorder on her part) and now I consider her to be my nemesis.
LIke Superman and lex luther or Spiderman and his friend...
strange how that happens.
@ J A: I have faith that you can make it happen.
@ StillSleeping: Wow. That really sucks. I have a friend who has been going in a different direction from me for a long time. She would probably qualify as a frenemy. But I would never purposely cut her out of my life. PS - I like the superhero analogy :)
thanks i need to try harder though. seems like life would be more action packed if i had one of those. i want a really good one though. i want an evil genius enemy. and i'll be their enemy.
that's exciting
@and I law her: yeah and she had moved to CHicago and a couple weeks ago she just randomly showed up at this non-profit place that my brother works at...and where I volunteer and she wanted to be a volunteer. Apparently our lives aren't going in such different directions after all.
@angela: hm, maybe. it's hard for me. i don't want people to dislike me, but i also refuse to be anything other than what i am, and that whole strong personality thing clashes sometimes.
@ StillSleeping: was she going to the non-profit to see your brother or was it a coincidence? Cause that's odd.
@ Des: I'm jealous that you can't identify one. That says good things about you :) Plus, strong personalities are awesome.
So, it appears I'm camping with my frenemy and 40 of our mutual friends over Memorial Day weekend. Remind me to pack the rum.
i know a kid that thinks he's my nemesis because i once told him that i didn't think the girl he was trying to get with was going to be interested in him (she was a hardcore christian and he was a satanist. i didn't see that having long term potential).
He told me if I ever talked to her again he would fuck me up. I told him i was going to talk to her tomorrow because we had a class together. He took a swing at me, which missed (due to drunkenness). Since then he's bad talked me all over the place and I just laugh.
honestly?
not really.
i try and make it a point to not have such people in my life, and create the kind of life whereby i do not need to have frenemies.
i do have some work-related people in my biz i am tenuously friendly with, as it befits me/a given situation
in general, there's just people that annoy me. and those i try to avoid, whenever possible.
@ Art: at least with 40 people around, you can hopefully avoid her.
@ C & M: It's good that you can laugh it off. Some people would retaliate. Glad you're above that :)
@ Garak: Sounds like a good policy. Somehow, I feel like men have it easier avoiding this frenemy thing. Hmm.
I don't know how many of you read Chuck Klosterman, but he defines a nemesis as the following:
RECOGNIZING YOUR NEMESIS
•At some point in the past, this person was (arguably) your best friend.
•You have punched this person in the face.
•If invited, you would go to this person's wedding and give him a spice rack, but you would secretly hope that his marriage ends in a bitter, public divorce.
•People who barely know both of you assume you are close friends; people who know both of you intimately suspect that you profoundly dislike each other.
•If your archenemy tried to kill you, this person would attempt to stop him.
And for J A: this is what you need to look for in an archenemy (again according to Chuck)
RECOGNIZING YOUR ARCHENEMY
•Every time you talk to this person, you lie.
•If you meet someone who has the same first name as this person, you immediately like him less.
•The satisfaction you feel from your own success pales in comparison to the despair you feel at this person's triumphs, even if those triumphs are completely unrelated to your life.
•If this person slept with your girlfriend, she would never be attractive to you again.
•Even if this person's girlfriend was a hateful bitch, you would sleep with her out of spite.
I have friends that are fine to hang out with, but I don't trust them half as far as I can throw them.
that may well be true, re: males/females and frenemies.
though - in my ongoing quest to figure out the mystery that is Woman - the whole conceit/point of frenemies is bizarre to me.
i am not talking about all women, but many of the girls i know seem to despise drama, yet constantly find ways of keeping it a part of their life - frenemies being one prime example/outlet.
I think my ex boyfriend is sort of a frenemy. I met his girlfriend on Monday and while I thought it went well and even felt stoked that I had walked out of there with no residual feelings for the guy, he sent me an email telling me that he thought the meeting was kind of awkward. I hope he gets over himself so he can be a friend.
Wait, Klosterman wrote that? Are you sure? There wasn't one Karate Kid reference in any of that.
My archenemy is a girl named Justine Jones. My friend wrote down that hes married to her on facebook and that immediately made me think less of him as a person.
My nemesis would be this girl named Lana who dated my ex boyfriend Steve after we broke up. I secretly hope that her relationship with him ends in both his financial ruin, and her romantic loss. I also hope that their sex life blows.
i'm pretty sure based on the klosterman definition i have a nemesis but no arch enemy.
i also do not have any frenemies that i am aware of.
i don't have enough friends to have a nemesis or a frenemy. i have a bunch of acquaintances, but i don't really talk to them or tell them anything important.
i definitely don't have an archenemy. it would take too much effort.
i'm sure there are people who hate me though.
BTown, are we your archenemies or your nemeses or your frenemies. be specific.
@(libi): I'm trying to figure out what you and I are. Your guess is as good as mine.
@centro: you're annoying and creepy, but not enough so that i waste effort thinking about it.

hm. possibly.