Expecting the unexpected

I do not mind if I help someone and the other fellow forgets to say Thank you to me. However, if he starts cursing me, blaming me or arguing me on this account, I immediately take a stern stand and make him realise that - "look'- dear, I've helped you out of the way and we you are not acknowledging and making a mockery of my effort, next time, please do not expect any kind of favour from me". I'll surely not help the fellow in future, if he shows unkind behaviour to me.

i have never regreted trying to help anyone as i always get a warm glow of good feeling from doing it. If someone does not appreciate what i am trying to do for them, then i feel it is their problem, not mine. So in answer i would say i still feel good even if my attempts have been misunderstood blessed be

Yep, I have helped out my some family members only to later regret helping them. One was a sister and her boyfriend. she wanted so badly to live with him. I allow them to stay after I just moved in to my new house. My husband was in jail for driving without a license. Not a DUI or anything like that. Just for not having a license. But thats naother story for a different time. Any who I was pregnat with my third child when this was going on. My sister and her boyfriend took money from me. Of course they denied it. So, I started locking my purse in the trunk of my car after that. We they did it again. They robbed my two boys piggy banks. I was livid. My sister had just left. So, I took her clothes out of the washer...wet,her clothes from the dryer..still wet and threw them out on my porch. I then went down where they were out. They were afraid to come out to me. So, I knew they did it. but they finally did. When they did. I told them straight out. They had better get there stuff off my porch and my sons bike back within one hour otherwise I was calling the cops and reporting them. I deeply regreted helping them. A couple months later I was at my mothers for easter. This ister showed up and started saying crap thatw qasn't true about me tossing her out. It got in a big fight. I told my mother she had better tell her to shut her mouth otherwise I was going to pound her because I hate someone who will steal money from a child and than lie about it. My mom got her to shut up because she knew I would of beat the crap out of her.