Ex's

[Susan McGee]

No: HPFGUIDX 1996

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Brooks A. Rowlett" <brooksar at i...> 
wrote:
> > Partially because, in my experience, there is no jerk in 
> > the world as jerky as the jerk you used to be in love with; also 
> > because ex-spouse bashing is a lot more socially acceptable (and 
> > understandable) than bashing of a random person who you just dont 
> > like.
> 
> Have to say I'm the exception, almost unnaturally so.  My ex and i
> talked on phone at least weekly after she moved to a different 
state, so
> that I could stay in touch with my son (who spent summers with me - 
we
> thought the schools were better in Virginia than Indiana, else he 
might
> have stayed with me during school year) - and lately, our 
discussion,
> when not about Alan, have been about Harry Potter, and book 
banning, and
> Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, and X-Men, and Unitarianism, and who's 
read
> what lately, and her dog Krypto's death (but her cat Streaky is 
still
> going strong:  toothless, deaf, and sedentary for most part, she 
still
> put the new dog in its place within two days!)  
> 
> We get along so well I once dreamed that we appeared on a Jerry
> Springer-like show and everybody thought we were fakes, because no 
one
> could believe we got on so well.
> 
> 
> My son's opinion of HP is kind of interesting, in that he is such a
> voracious F&SF reader that he liked them just fine, but they don't 
stand
> out head and shoulders above a lot of his other recent reading, to 
him. 
> He was complaining that the one William Gibson book his Science 
Fiction
> Literature teacher assigned was one *without* slam-bang action, when
> Gibson was such a good action writer.  And he agreed with me that 
_On
> the Beach_ was rather silly.
> 
> -Brooks
> You might be a candidate for Jerry Springer if......you let your 12 
year
> old daughter smoke at the dinner table in front of her kids.



Well, I'm another exception, I respect and like my former husband who 
is a good guy (if he hadn't been, why did I get involved with him)?, 
and I can't think of a former lover that I don't think well of......
Seriously, otherwise, what did I see in them in the first place?
(Unreasoned lust only lasts until they open their mouths..for me)

Susan