><catbrier@fwiw.com> wrote:::
> >> ><Waving hi.>
> >>
> >> (Sniff...)
> >> That's not funny.
> >
> >The last line was for me.  I take it as, serves him right.
> >
> >> Pity the poor mistress for her long hours of loneliness.
> >
> >That goes along with going with a married man, I have no sympathy for
such.
>
> Not even a smidgeon of your cast-off compassion?

I can try to muster some.  I'm off the mind you are an adult and knew full
well what you were getting into.

>So much as one might
casually
> toss to a squashed cat on the roadside?
>
> ;\

That would be of the mind that you are stupid, and I don't believe such.

But, sure.....accidents happen - even in love.
>
> >Every year holiday time is just awful for her.  Love should not be that
way,
> >ever.
>
> Well, there is always family and one's default family of misfit friends.

I hate secrets like that, in a marriage there shouldn't be secrets as such.
>
> >> Waiting. Gazing forlornly up the footpath for a sign of redemption.
> >
> >Redemption, curious choice of words.  I don't see any redemptation unless
he
> >ditches his wife.  Any woman deserves to be his No. 1.
>
> What is that line in the Tori Amos' song - "looking for salvation between
these
> dirty sheets."
>
> >>Being
> >silent
> >> when longing to scream. Unable to show the slightest hint of affection,
> >even the
> >> gentlest loving touch, in any but the darkest and most secretive of
> >places.
> >
> >Is that supposed to make me feel sorry for you?
>
> (Weakly...) Yes?! (Pensive.)

I try Cat, I do.
>
> >> Holding a cup, neither half full or empty, but drained of all save a
drop
> >of the
> >> strongest liqueur. Like a poisoned well. Tears of bitter gall, wept
alone.
> >For a
> >> mistress must never weep openly.
> >
> >Why not, they do it all the time.  Some as happy to be No. 2 and taken
care
> >of.
>
> Someone has to be strong in the face of calamity. And I have a fierce
panic of
> coming apart in front of anyone else. It makes me physically sick to
imagine
> ever allowing that to happen to me again. I prefer to scream alone.

OK.
You need to be comfortable with yourself and your emotion.
>
> >> And yet, dear cybervillagers, who among you has proved a more steadfast
> >heart?
> >
> >He does not deserve your steadfastness.  First rule:  Do unto others.
>
> This has been suggested. Numerous times. I think it is starting to take
hold in
> my feeble mind.

YAY!!
>
> >> Of such women, sibyls and witches dreadful are made.
> >
> >So Stop already - will 'ya?
>
> I've been hinting at that - without saying it directly. It's just that my
> emotions are very raw right now.

Now that I can empathize with, sorry Cat.
Take it easy.
>
> Cat
>
>