I thought you all could learn from my experience. To provide context, I have travelled to CR as a tourist for over 2.5 years. The last year I have been living here, full-time, with the exception of business travel. So, I'm not a seasoned veteran, but certainly am not ignorant in many aspects of travelling and living in CR.
That said, I'm not as brave as some on this board and WOULD NEVER DATE A PROSTITUTE longer than a few hours. I don't care if they are so-called retired or semi-pros.
So, I met a gal in my hood have been pretty much dating the same girl since October of last year. It has almost been a year. Well... there have been some rough times and a couple of breakups, but we are still together. Let me also provide context by saying that SHE IS NOT OR NEVER HAS BEEN A HOOKER. I met her under totally different circumstances in Escazu.
I've recently seen the light and now understand how her wheels spin. Or, at least a few of them.
She has a few upsides, but many, many downsides. The thing that bothers me most is her maturity level and stubborness. She has good days and bad days. When she is bad, it is kind of like dragging around a bitching, crying 14 year old girl with a bad attitude. Its almost embarassing. Especially, since she is turning 25 very shortly.
I recently adopted a Rottweiller puppy who is 3 months old and have been studying like crazy to figure out how to raise this thing properly. She is a train wreck. She has demolished just about everything in the house. Her recent conquest - she is starting to literally "eat" the water heater appliance in my back room... which is where she goes when she is bad.
That said, the puppy is slowly getting better and learning. She now knows that it is bad to shit all over the house and chew on shoes, furniture and the like. Well on her bad days, she sort of forgets about this, but she is getting much better.
The most important thing I've learned in puppy training, is to not scold bad behavior, but ignore it. The puppy is just being bad, because it wants attention. So, when she takes a lake-sized piss, in front of me, on the living room carpet, scolding only reinforces that bad behavior. What I do now, is I pick her up, don't say a thing, and place her in the back room with the lights off. She cries at first. I don't give in. I wait till she is quiet and I let her out, after the place is clean. (This way she doesn't see me cleaning her shit, so again, I'm not re-enforcing bad behavior, by giving her extra attention.
Going back to my novia... She too, has good days and bad days. I decided to try some puppy training on her.
The same concept WORKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!! How do I spell Hale - phucking- lujeh!!!!! My old strategy of reacting with anger and disbelief at all of her stupid bullshit NEVER WORKS!!!! It just makes her more angry and defensive and I suddenly find myself trying dig out of a 10 foot hole filled with vomit, piss and shit... with a broken shovel. I never win using this method. My new strategy of ignore the bad, and reward the good (thanks to my puppy training books) really phucking works!!!!
For example, I needed to by a new pair of running shoes badly. Mine were completely worthless and falling apart. Bad for the knees and ankles... you get the point. Also, the puppy (not the human form, but the dog form) had been chewing on them, to a point of non-recognition. They looked like a shredded mass of fabric glued together on a sole of rotted chewing gum.
When I told my novia, I was going out to buy a new pair of running shoes, her eyes opened wide, she started foaming at the month, her ears perked up and her tail rose sharply and began pointing stiffly westward at the Escazu Multi-Plaza. (HINT... HINT... HINT.... "Daddy... I want to go shopping."
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I reluctantly said that I have one purpose and only one - I'm going to buy a much needed pair of running shoes. I will be in and out in 20 minutes and I'm only buying on thing. (My doctor would kill me if he knew I was running on an old pair wooden planks.) She seemed to understand and went to get dressed. Leaving the house, I observed that both puppies were wagging their tails like crazy when I said "Come on - it's time to go for "car ride."
wag, wag, wiggle, wiggle we are all in the car and heading for the Multi-Plaza.
Both puppies were jumping.... seat to seat... and slobbering all over the windows. Barking nonsense at me ...that I cannot understand. Its crazy... I actually get the two confused sometimes... when my novia behaves badly... I've been mistaking her name with the dog's name. Boy that becomes a train wreck.
Anyway... inside the mall... my novia quickly begins begging. Daddy... I want this... Daddy I want that.... Daddy.... I want some ice cream. Daddy... since you are getting a new pair of shoes.... I should have a new pair. Its only fair.
Yeah bullshit... I knew what I was getting into. Now, I'm also armed with a set of facts that help me deal with rogue puppy behavior. I simply ignored her.
I went in the store, tried on a pair of shoes, paid for them and walked out without saying a word or looking sideways.
She wasn't happy but complied and walked silently by my side to the car. We didn't have the normal argument of "I told you this. You understood and now you want that!!!!!!!! blah blah blah. Instead, we had a quiet ride home and later cooked dinner together and watched a movie. Not once, did she ever mention the shoes that she needed so desperately.
puppy chow for thought...
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