Letters to the Editor
Gwool
Published Letters: 366 Editor's Choice: 40
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"Don't Fence Me In" is a song you can't sing once you put on that ring.
[Read the article: A grad student in China has taken possession of my soul]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]So the LW went to China, was checking out the local scenery and fixated on one a little more than usual. There's nothing new there. It's quite fun to daydream about what life would be like with another. There's all sorts of young lovelies out there that can pique one's curiosity as to what is on the other side of the fence, particularly when one hasn't worked the pooper scooper on the marital yard in a little while. Few, however, can jump the fence without getting hung up on their testicles, which can get very, very painful financially.
It's a rare dalliance that, if acted upon, will result in the desired "happy ending."
Now, if you will excuse me, I need to work the pooper scooper. It beats trying to buy a pair of neuticals.
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Where's the beef?
[Read the article: I'm so mad at my ex I could explode!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Buried in the LW's vitriol was her admission that she had been unhappy and could not wait to leave him after the youngest kid left the nest. He has somehow found someone who pleases him, and she is ticked off about it. This sounds a little like sour grapes. She left him, and yet he's happier than her at the moment and so it is somehow unfair?
She believes the ex when he says he met the new paramour AFTER getting kicked to the curb by the LW. Seems to me she needs to focus on herself and leave the ex to his own devices.
She made her bed a single and now seems unhappy to have to lie in it while the ex frolics in a double. She still seems to want to have control over her ex's behavior and to make sure said ex is not happier than she is.
That's not healthy, nor does it seem to be the ex's fault. She seems to gloss over the fact she is the one who bailed.
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Which Came First, the Chicken or the Egg
[Read the article: My husband is making me suspicious]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The husband is a little secretive, and the wife is a little jealous. Well, which came first? Is the husband not telling her about correspondences with females because she gets insanely jealous and irrational; or is this behavior justified by her because of a repeated pattern of secrecy and skulking around the margins of acceptable, husbandly conduct by him?
I have correspondences with old girlfriends. I swap e-mails with one about once a week. She was my high school sweetheart. Besides my wife, she's the only woman I've ever truly loved.
But my wife knows about it. I talk about some of the funnier things that get swapped back and forth in the e-mails. When she was in town a year or so ago, I met her for dinner. I invited my wife along and she demured. I asked figuring she would not want to go, and she declined probably figuring I did not want her to come along.
Tough to say what's going on based on the limited information. The only thing that is for certain is that the two of them are not communicating to one another very well.
Whining to Cary about it isn't going to get it solved, either.