I think my quilts are cursed
01-22-2011, 08:28 PM
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If you send him a certified letter (return receipt requested) and request that he return your Xbox immediately or send you the money, you can take a copy of that letter and the return receipt he signed to your local police department and file charges with them for "theft by conversion." A visit by the police, handcuffs, booking photos, etc., will get his attention (and hopefully your Xbox back). I had a former roommate move out and take some of my stuff when she left. Needless to say, I gave the police her work address to pick her up.
01-22-2011, 08:41 PM
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Originally Posted by catmcclure
If you send him a certified letter (return receipt requested) and request that he return your Xbox immediately or send you the money, you can take a copy of that letter and the return receipt he signed to your local police department and file charges with them for "theft by conversion." A visit by the police, handcuffs, booking photos, etc., will get his attention (and hopefully your Xbox back). I had a former roommate move out and take some of my stuff when she left. Needless to say, I gave the police her work address to pick her up.
01-22-2011, 08:45 PM
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Originally Posted by butterflywing
Originally Posted by catmcclure
If you send him a certified letter (return receipt requested) and request that he return your Xbox immediately or send you the money, you can take a copy of that letter and the return receipt he signed to your local police department and file charges with them for "theft by conversion." A visit by the police, handcuffs, booking photos, etc., will get his attention (and hopefully your Xbox back). I had a former roommate move out and take some of my stuff when she left. Needless to say, I gave the police her work address to pick her up.
01-22-2011, 08:57 PM
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I would try to stop thinking in negative ways & turn it into a positive. We have to learn as we evolve or else we're not growing! I, too, have been hurt & felt abandoned by friends who suddenly walked out of my life with no explanation. Then I heard the expression "A Reason or A Season" -- meaning that people come into your life -- some may only pass thru briefly, some may stay awhile or a lifetime, but they're there to teach you something about yourself or to fulfill some other purpose (maybe known only to God). But if we can learn from these experiences & change our negative behaviors, we may become who we were meant to be. You obviously have a generous heart, so find a good cause for your quilts to go to, until someone truly proves themselves to be "quilt-worthy"! Good Luck!
01-22-2011, 09:40 PM
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Originally Posted by Quiltforme
It's not you I have been following your post for some time now it is not you. for someone to go and make these beautiful quilts out of the kindness of your heart they don't deserve your quilts. You will find the right people honestly you will. It just seems you are weeding out the bad ones just happens to be the ones who received your quilts. Maybe give your quilts to a charity and then you will see how your much your quilts will truely be properly loved. That kindness will be seen and you will see the good people out there. I had the same problem so to say. I choose the wrong people. It took a while to figure this out sometimes our hearts are so big we just don't see what is happening.
01-22-2011, 10:22 PM
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Originally Posted by thequilteddove
*gives you a hug* I have had many people in my life that I loved. Girls I had been friends with for 10yrs, men who proclaimed to love me until we died. Granted I wasn't quilting back then; but when the relationships ended I was devestated each and every time. Every last one of them I took personal - I felt betrayed, abandoned, used... I am WAY older now and my way of thinking has changed a lot. I was fortunate to learn at a relatively young age (arount 25-30) that it wasn't me, it's life. As we age we are constantly evolving. We grow, mature, whatever... the people we love may do it faster than we do or we may do it faster than they do. They/we are not always 'equipped' with how to deal with 'stuff' without hurting each other...
The love you put in to anything, be it a relationship or a quilt is NEVER for nothing. We just need to learn who deserves our love and when to cut our losses when we discover they are not worthy.
Keep making your quilts. Make them for soldiers, battered women, yourself, what ever. Continue to make them for people you love no matter how the relationships go. Your quilts are NOT cursed and neither are you. Know that in your heart and you will see how life gradually changes :)
The love you put in to anything, be it a relationship or a quilt is NEVER for nothing. We just need to learn who deserves our love and when to cut our losses when we discover they are not worthy.
Keep making your quilts. Make them for soldiers, battered women, yourself, what ever. Continue to make them for people you love no matter how the relationships go. Your quilts are NOT cursed and neither are you. Know that in your heart and you will see how life gradually changes :)
It's not the quilts that are cursed....
We all could probably find one or two of our own that ended up in a less than favorable situation.
Your love will always be in any quilt you make because it seems that you also love to make them and give them with heartfelt meaning. As "the quilteddove" said..countinue to make them...and I might diviate from "the quilteddove" by suggesting that your next quilt be given to a charity, nursing home, police department or even the fire department closest to you...they always like having something to wrap victims in.
Chin up, deep breath, smile...it's hard to be down in the dumps with a smile on your face.
Bless you for sharing.
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