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• Friday, June 6, 2008 09:57 AM

  lunch time conversation revealed another one

  I just spoke w/ a woman I work w/... evidentally she's been married for 34 years to a fella w/ extreme anxiety and depression. so it's been a terrible roller coaster for all these years. She's stuck w/ him, but she deals w/ verbal abuse all the time at home. she just told me all this 15 minutes ago.

  I married someone who I think in retrospect was schitzophrenic. Narcissistic, bi-polar... I dunno. But I got rid of him as soon as the Scooby Do mask came off.

  When I went through my divorce I had more women come to me to tell me 'bout all the dysfunction at home, and that I was smart for getting out early. They've been in extremely trying relationships for years. I couldn't believe how many women "came out" to me when I was going through my divorce.

  Like I said earlier on this board, there's a lot of broken people out there. No one is perfect, but there's different kinds of faults.

  So I'm saying: don't let the pressure get to you. Just take it easy until someone that's truly kind and compatible with you shows up.

  You know it's right when it's really easy to be nice to each other.

  I found a great fella last fall (while doin' stuff w/ meetup dot com). He's not perfect, but the faults I can handle, and he seems to be able to handle my faults.

  But the bottom line is we both have good intentions towards each other, we care 'bout the other's well being, and behave as such. And I am extremely grateful, 'cuz in retrospect I came across a lot of troubled souls out there looking for love.

  Be well, and don't accept any pressure to couple up.

  —sacajawea Read sacajawea's other letters
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