Larousse, "a fairly attractive face" is used when you mean "you have quite an attractive face but it could be a lot more attractive."

I'm so sorry I laughed. It was rude of me.

You know someone should make one of these emoticons sort of like the "eek" but black with feathers so we could tar and feather someone.

Oh, and I find that buck toothed beaver grin quite obnoxious. It always makes me want to slap someone. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

If I didn't know better, I would think that emoticon was Chinese.

Pio,
Thanks for your great advice. I am printing it to remind myself of ...
Well, good night and good luck with G. During the weekend I have less time to post...

The fact that Stef and Luna and Todd haven't shown up today makes me want to tar and feather someone.

<img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/mad.gif" alt="" />

<img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> Those are Mel's big teef. They always have been.

Folks, the dialogue of the past two days put me in a deressive tailspin. I saw lie after lie after lie and it triggered me about my WW's lying. Thank you everyone for your well wishes and encouraging me to come back.

What pio said about hope is exactly right. I now have a problem in that department, I am guessing. After I moved out in March, I spent the next six months withdrawing from my WW, as Harley suggests, and did it well. I picked up the phone to call her twice but never did. That was as close as I ever got to breaking NC.

As you know, DS3 engineered a reunion with WW and me. Since then, I have had great difficulty in maintaining NC. I am not sure why. Is it because contact restored hope? Did it rekindle fires? Was it DS3's pressure? I simply don't know. I do know that I am currently unable to maintain NC.

I talked with WW earlier in the week and she agree to meet me for dinner tonight. She called after work to say that she and co-workers were going to have drinks after work. I asked her did she want to meet after that. She said no, that she had to work tomorrow and needed to get up early. Well, I was furious and quickly realized that I had made or let myself become vulnerable to her actions again. Can someone please give me a perspective as to what has changed? 2x4's are welcomed. Including from you stph if you wish to return the favor. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

Is he trash talkin my teef?? <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" />

Pio, I understand why it's confusing, keep Te extrañábamos is more usual and totally correct. Instead of asking a Colombian I would ask a tabasqueño, they can be a whole other world, look at the mess around el Peje, the opposition presidencial candidate... Wait, I'm not surprise G can be... er, different.

Kiwi, thanks for your explanation. I was not offended at all, by the contrary it helps me. My work tends to interrupt my MBers time and I feel so much stress than I don't get to feel offended, most of the time. Feel free to correct or explain me something when you want to.

ML, me not understanding, nice teeth, though.

[color:"red"] He's back [/color]

T O D D !!!!!!!

Todd, I am very sorry you were triggered, but glad you are back. Like you, I found the lies and rationalizations offensive and repugnant. Not because of my experience as a betrayed spouse, but because it offended my sense of decency, as I think it would most people. Hopefully, she is gone and will leave this thread in peace, my friend. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" />

Todd, I am so pleased to see you back.

You have already answered your question. You have been caught up in contact with your w and it's reopened wounds that were nicely healing over. Do you really, really think she's going to change now? I don't think she is.

NC, NC, NC. Trust me you can do it.

LAROUSSE!!!!! You said you wouldn't write in red fonts if Todd came back.

You bad girl. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

Todd my short explanations is that there is OM3 or the same OM1.

Kiwi made me write with red color, she teleordered me.

Bad Kiwi

Did Todd go somewhere? I hadn't noticed. No matter.

Todd, FWIW, I see red fonts in larousse's posts too.

Well the humidity has gone away and the temperature has dropped and there is a hint of autumn in the air. Doesn't matter to our building maintenance people though. AC is going full on. According to my desk clock, it is 17.7C in my office (63.8F). No problem though. I brought in my crockpot from home and plugged it into a 220V socket. It gets REALLY toasty.

WW called me this morning to ask me if she could get by on $100 or $200 cash for the trip back. I said it depended on how much time she spent in the duty free shop. At first I thought it was strange. Why wouldn't she bring it all back as cash. Then it hit me that it was already spent so this was a phone call for more money. Duh! What was I THINKING?

larousse,

gemela is chilanga or carmelita - depending on who she is talking to. She was born chilanga but raised carmelita. She expatriated to Tabasco for a couple of years which is where we met. Land of the Olmecas.

Thanks Larousse.

When did you post in red font? Maybe I see red font normally. Kinda like the soldier who saw every twice in "Catch 22". The doctor held up one finger and he saw two, he held up two fingers and he saw two, and so on and so forth. You had to read the book I guess.

JK, I did see the red font. Tonight, I saw green font on someone's post. Maybe I am secretly wishing for Christmas to be here.

Thanks Jen.

I don't know. I tend to think that seeing her again renewed hope and that is what I had kept in check. I was resolute for six months and now, honestly, I am weak.

Should I ask BigK about SF? JK. I know the answer to that one.

Thank you Mel. I agreed with all your points BTW. I like your straight ahead style.

And the liberal use of Aquanet of course.

Pio, come on now. Your email to me had tear stains on it. At least I hope it was tears....

Anyway, group, for the record, to a man all other men are ugly. Just the way nature made us. What really ran me off was Pio's picture. Too much reality. I had him pictured ugly in my mind but apparently my mind's imagination is not quite vivid enough.

Well I survived the weekend quite well. No depression. I stayed too busy. DD1 and I got into a couple of spats. I decided to make chicken pot pie for lunch. My mistake was putting in peas. Okay lesson learned. I did not like the way she explained it to me though and I had to tell her that I was working very hard for her and all she and DD2 were doing all day was playing. I told her I was doing my very best and I was sorry about the peas but that it was an honest mistake and I would never do it again but that there wee correct was to tell me that and wrong ways to tell me that and she had chosen the wrong way. She was in a snit and complained about everything. Something going on besides food issues so I sent her to her room.

She had asked earlier to play in the water slide after lunch. I reminded her that she had wanted to go to the driving range. Problem is friend from across the street wanted to play on the water slide so DD1 told me they would play on it for five minutes and then we would go to the driving range (yeah - right). So I set up the water slide and DD1 decided she didn't want to play. I told her she had invited friend who was already outside so she had better go out and play. More after lunch problems. My day was going from bad to worse. So she went outside. They were not sliding so I went out and found DD1 crying. I asked why. She said because friend wouldn't play with her. I asked friend what was wrong. She sadi DD1 refused to play with her. I tried to get them to play but it wasn't meant to be so I shut off the water slide and sent friend packing and DD1 up to clean her room.

Later she came down and asked if we could go to the driving range. I should have taken a photo. She had gotten her very best skort and matching top. She had brushed her hair back into a ponytail and put on a color coordinated scrunchie. All this matched her golf glove and she had her new shoes on. She is her mother's daughter all right. She may not play well but she looks like a golfer.

DD1 and I came to better terms last night. I reminded her that all I did was scold her about her messy room. If gemela returns and finds it in that condition, it could get ugly and there would probably be shoes involved. She swears it will be clean by then. At least some of the Bratz have clothes on again. Gemela goes ballistic when the dolls don't all look nice. Hmmmm.....???