THE SEVERELY EDITED MAN

Somebody I thought had a brain seems to have lost the capacity for rational thought as well as any sense of perspective since he married a Vietnamese American anti-communist just before he retired. I stopped respecting him during the first Trump administration, which was right around the time they got married. I'm attributing his near-total moronicity to his having gotten hitched to a cute little pit viper.

Some men are just weak.

I'll ascribe his loss of sense and ethics to the she-demon.

[He's also become much more xenophobic and intolerant over the past several years, and I don't know whether that's the baleful influence of his wife, who is very pro-Trump and "patriotic", or a tendency that was always there, made far worse by everything as well as an enlarged prostate and chronic digestive problems.]


Through no actual planning on my part, I am myself unmarried and not involved with the opposite gender. Part of that is that I'm a stubborn old git, part of it is that my former long term girl-friend was and still is also stubborn and strongminded, and part of it is that having been told be several wellmeaning and very misguided people that if only I would change many things about myself I could be up to my eye-brows in married bliss.

Which sounded then, and still sounds, like a recipe for disaster.

I am quite capable of being happily miserable without self-torture.


One suggestion which struck me as insane at the time was that I should hang around at the Marina Safeway scoping out the single women there, and attempt to strike up conversations with them. Erm, eh, ah, urk. Because that was were the single women were. Either that or join a yoga class. A friend who conceived of it as her mission in life to get me hooked up, eventually gave up, conceded defeat, and moved out of state with her husband.

So you can probably understand why I have little respect for the man who changed his insights, morals, and ethics to be more acceptable to his new wife and her kinfolk.
I wonder how the adult children from his first marriage feel about that.



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