From: Gary Wiltshire 

On Sun, 21 May 2000 15:11:26 -0700, Randall Parker  wrote:

>In article ,
>gary_wiltshire{at}compuserve.com says...
>> My inlaws seem to have assumed that I'm a worthless philanderer who
>> can't be bothered to support his family -- they also don't know who's
>> paying the lion's share of the expensed back at the house, as his son
>> does live there.
>
>I'd disabuse them of their ignorance on various of these points and would
>tell them the stuff you said here about the sex life too.
>
>Geez Gary, that rots big time. You have my sympathy.
>
>Luckily since there are no kids involved the story of my last lying
>cheating girlfriend is not nearly so bad. (though I really would have
>preferred finding out certain things via e-mail messages rather than
>seeing them myself)
>
>
Frankly, I've never liked them enough to worry about it.  It's amazing how
many acquaintances (not friends -- I'm discriminate between the two terms)
see a man in his forties move out and automatically assume a midlife crises
and another woman.  Appallingly these acquaintances seem to think that kind
of behavior is both normal and forgivable.

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