Posts are coming like rain today....

I talked to SC today. His situation has gone from weird to weirder lately.

He started out explaining that he likes to make "country fried steak" with the venison he got from hunting. He said, "It's a Southern thing." I reminded him that I'm a Texas girl, and need no explanation of country fried anything. He also asked about my trip home from Texas, adding, "Did you get BF snapped into shape?"

He's referring to Fella.

I said, "BF? No. I don't know if I can count him as a BF if he's saying it's okay for me to go out with other people." And I explained about Fella's stressful situation.

He responded by saying his ex is weirding out his life. Her sister is gone, leaving him as the only caregiver. He hired someone to look in on her while he was out of town for the holiday. He came home to find all the burners on the stove turned on.

Suicide attempt? No. She thought she was turning on the microwave.

By profession, she's a high-powered stock expert, earning over $600 million for a major financial corporation last year. She's been trying to read the Wall Street Journal and watch CNBC, but her comprehension is minimal.

Worse yet, she's forgotten they are divorced. She walks into the bathroom when he's in there. She climbs into bed with him at night.

"How do you handle that?" I asked.

"Well....I push her back out of the bathroom...cause I'm usually pooping," he said. I had to laugh. He keeps a cheerful heart, no matter what. "If I'm in the tub, I'll tell her I'll be out in a few. If I'm in the bed, I get her up and help her back to the other room."

She thinks he's mad at her for the surgery. She has no memory of cheating on him or of them breaking up.

He told me it puts a crimp in dating, too. "What happened in Ogden hasn't happened again," he said. "But I'm probably telling you too much."

I assured him that it's okay. I'm interested in anything he wants to say. He thanked me for that.

I had to wonder, did he mention Ogden as a way of telling me he doesn't have another dating relationship like that? Or to let me know he's not sleeping with his ex?

Honestly, I wanted to cry for him, and for her. It's like when someone has dementia and forgets a loved one is dead. You can't say, "But they're dead!" because for that person, the grief is new. For his ex, they've been in love and suddenly, he's turning her away. How sad for her. How hard for him, to break her heart when that love is long gone for him.