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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The main thing Gerry had going for him was that he was "nice". He's obviously not that bright or interesting. 
All the women who got any screen time at all were always out of his league.

And I mean, as an unmarried woman, I get it, I've had people try to get me to date/marry "nice" men for the past twenty-five years, and every time I'd ask them to tell me something about the men, they'd say, "he's...nice".

So if Gerry isn't a decent man, then what is there? He's a senior citizen who ran some random businesses and bought a house on a lake with his wife who died, no more tragically than anyone else's deceased spouse. I guess he has his hair, if that's important to you?

If Theresa likes him, great, but she'll be no different from all the fabulous women aged 20-70 going home to some hopelessly mediocre man because it's supposedly better than being alone and he's...nice.

At least Susan is attracted to women. The rest of them, I'd suggest just hanging out with each other and having sex with a hot young guy when the urge strikes. That's what we're all doing now, because nice doesn't cut it and they're rarely that nice anyway. 
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Agree with all of this. But Theresa might be okay with mediocre because she finds him attractive and doesn't want to be alone. That's okay, I guess. We heard only his ex GF's side. I would like to know his. My guess is he's never had much money and didn't retire at 55 because he was uber successful but because he wasn't and his pipeline of random short-term jobs ended. It's telling that his wife continued to work for another decade+. They needed the income. I've certainly known wealthy cheapskates, but he may well have been cheap because he needed to be. Money was probably the primary reason for pursuing GB. And, yes he was probably not thrilled his wife had gained a lot of weight over time, and is sensitive about that with a new partner. He's thin and fit and would like a partner to be the same. I don't think that's disqualifying. If he was cruel about it with his ex, that's not okay, but maybe it was part of a larger disconnect they had at the time and she decided to focus on that piece. She definitely comes across as very angry, whether justifiable or not. Although I feel bad for her--we've seen how he can love bomb at the beginning then shift--I tend to always believe the truth is somewhere in the middle.[/quote]

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