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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here.  I'll check back every now and again with updates.  Not daily, because that's narcissistic.  But every few weeks.

I did call a friend today with whom I haven't spoken in about 10 years.  She was a funny lady.  She used to introduce me publically as Eve Summers because she said I looked like the kind of woman running through the fields in those douche commercials.  Anyway...

We had a really nice talk.  Really intimate too.  It is amazing how the closeness of the friendship is almost permanent...even when you no longer speak with one another.  We talked about her marriage -- its disintegration but also the attempts to try again.  I felt bad for her, because it must be so hard to get to the point that you decide to end this union.  She was saying that the problem was how much time he spent flying and how it controlled his life.  He was ruining their budget spending money on airplane equipment and was always going out flying, sometimes without telling her.  He clearly loved flying more than her. And he even left their daughter's wedding early to go to some flying show.

So as I am listening, I am of course feeling very bad for her, but part of me is thinking, "How cool is that?  The guy is an aviator."  So when she says she is trying to work things out with him after a 5 year break, I start to talk to her about setting limits for what she can handle, but also trying to better understand his (and her) passions.  I suggest maybe she can go out flying with him to share this passion, and she said she did do that from time to time, but she found it mind-numbingly boring.  "I'm just out there in the cold with my jacket on watching him fly his stupid plane."  When I ask her why she isn't actually in the plane with him, she starts laughing and tells me this whole flying thing is with RADIO CONTROLLED AIRPLANES!  Toy airplanes. He is buying toy airplane parts.  He left their daughter's wedding to go to a model airplane show!

Then I just laughed with her.  But with a lot a sympathy.

OMG. LOLOLOL. You are THE COOLEST poster on DCUM and this is the best post I've ever read here!

I am loving this thread so much!

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