Hey, all! Yes, I know, it's been quite a while.
I could probably type until my fingers were sore on what I've been
doing lately, since I was such a regular blogger and all for such a
long time, but I won't. Not because it's boring (it isn't), but it's
late, and I'm a bit tired, a bit sick, and a bit blue. But only a bit.
The thing that I forgot, though, was that writing always helps, and
so, lo, again I'm here to write to you all, apologizing for my long
absence from blogging. Hope that you all are doing well!
Here we are, in the midst of the American Silly Season (others might
call it Election Year), and I've been spending a lot of time with the 4
year old, Grace, to whom this blog is dedicated. It's been a trying
year, but one of change, and that is, I think, a good thing. But my
thoughts turned to post that I wrote quite a while ago called One Of The Talks That I Hope To Give My Daughter and, by jove, I think I have another one.
That post was about drugs. This one is about a topic just as dangerous: relationships. It's perfect for divorce360.
Being that I'm a single dad,
one might surmise, correctly, that my luck with women has not been the
best. But, as this man approaches 40, I'm beginning to catch a whiff of
what might be a working theory. I'm pretty sure that it would work for
women, too.
It would go something like this, I think:
"Grace, you're getting older now, and I'm sure that you'll want to
date, if you haven't already. Most of those you might not even tell me
about. I hope that you do, but you might not. Before you do, though,
let me give you a little advice from an old dad who has been dating for
a while."
"You're going to meet a lot of people. Some of them will like you
for who you are, and some, compulsively, will try to change you. Of
those two types, realize that once you realize who you are, and you
probably haven't yet, you won't change too much. You might pick up or
lose a habit; you might gain or lose an interest. Fine. But the whole
of you, the person that is you, won't change, so finding someone that
you have something important in common with might be...big."
"But that isn't the lesson."
"The real lesson is to try to not be that person who tries to change
the other. That path will not make you happy, and I doubt that it will
make the other person happy. Be the best person that you can be, care
about the one that you love, respect the relationship that you have,
never be afraid to have communication with that person, but be ready to drop
and run if you have to."
"Grow together, improve together, encourage each other, and share
everything. EVERYTHING. From the dash of your hairspray, to the bills
in the mail, to the joys in your lives. Share it and relish it all.
Because, Gracie, if you don't share it all, the good and the bad, the
ugly and the beautiful, you'll have secrets, and you will not be a couple.
You might be a relationship, but not a couple. In the end, that will
probably not make you happy, when your being happy is the only wish
that I will ever have for you."
I think, think that is what I might say.
I don't know, though. Seems a bit long winded. What do you think?