Can't Win For Losing

Thursday, October 18, 2007

Donna has had a pretty rough week, in a grumpier-that-the-people-around-her-care-to-talk-about kind of way. For some reason or another she seems to have been not quite herself. She's been barking at the kids and refusing any kind of attempts to help her cheer up.

Then today, after Twitter dumped a whole bunch of messages from her tweets, I got this desperate text message...

Why am I getting so upset so easily!!!! My replies are all there but not my recents for days and days.

Clearly things were getting out of hand. The twenty-seven or so random, rambling messages about twenty-three totally disconnected things told me they weren't going to get any better. Her fragile mood was falling completely apart.

I made several phone calls trying to cheer her up and get to the bottom of the problem but to no avail. She'd have no part of it. She was dead-set on being in a pissy mood. But my big concern was what I knew would happen next. She was about to get really needy.

Right after I told her I felt like she could use a night out away from the kids, the end began like this...

Oh, right
maybe I'll stay out till 3:00
and start smoking
and make out with a stranger
What would you say if I said I wanted to make out with a stranger?

She doesn't want to make out with a stranger. She want's me to tell her that I don't want that. I am not so stupid that I don't know that. But I didn't think it was fair that she would ask me a loaded question that would, no matter how I answered, end up in a fight. Especially when all I'd been trying to do is encourage her to do whatever she needed to do to break out of her funk.

I was being the good husband and I was about to get hamstringed for it.

I just need to know you love me.

I do love you. That's exactly why if making out with a stranger would make you happy that I would want you to do it. Especially if she was really hot and you would let me watch.

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