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so, maybe this is only me, and I need to lighten up, but is there a word for the change of feeling when you try to do something nice for someone and they ignore you, and you just end up getting angry/frustrated instead?
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Psycho?  Seriously, I know what you mean. Letdown?
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Or comedown?
Chagrin? anticlimax? killjoy? damper?
Can't think of anything else... bah, thought I could come up with more, what a chagrin!
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heh. ®
letdown comes close, I guess, but I think I'm still looking...
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Faldage has what would fit the closest for me, but I'll add 'disappointment' anyway.
Which leads me into thinking about expectations: things like this always seem worse when we have been expecting gratitude, or at the very least acknowledgement. Something, akin to assumptions I guess, that I've not been able to completely rid myself of yet. Even when long history would seem to warrant you being able to expect a certain behavior, people can still let you down--which of course wouldn't have happened if you had not had the expectation.
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yeah, righteous indignation is getting close. I don't know that I have expectations for gratitude, it's just that you want to do something nice, because that makes you feel good, and then, poof, somebody doesn't accept it. hmm.
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Yeah. I have learned, though, that sometimes there are reasons why someone doesn't accept a helping hand. For ex.: 1.) they're just independent cusses; 2.) they think YOU think they're less than fully independent, and they can't stand this idea; 3.) they're simply too preoccupied with other things to notice either the helping hand, and/or to bother to show appreciation. And then again--sometimes it's that they're just plain rude!
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well, I think this particular situation was mostly #3, but that happens often these days, it seems...
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