For some reason, I am almost always able to tell when somebody is up to no good. When they are out to use or hurt somebody, I know. I haven't been wrong yet. I wish just once somebody would prove me wrong, so I don't feel like some horrible person. I feel bad when I try to warn my boyfriend that somebody is not as great as they come off. I feel even worse when he continues to defend them, only to prove him wrong when they do what I knew they would.
Maybe the reason I can tell when people are up to no good has to do with all of the poor, pitiful souls who used to take advantage of us. My mother has always had a bleeding heart. When I was younger, we ALWAYS had somebody who needed a place to stay at our house... more specifically in my room. It seems I spent the majority of my childhood sleeping on the couch or in my brothers' bedroom. There was always a woman from our church who was "leaving".
Often, they were actually the ones who had the problems. One women had this sob story where her husband was a drug addict and beat her. Turned out, she was the druggie. She was mad at him and wanted to make him pay. So she stayed at our house for awhile.
As long as I can remember, people have been taking advantage of my family or of me. Maybe I've developed the ability to see people's true motives as a defense, a form of self-preservation.
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