If I hang up on the old lady who gave me birth because she decides that she needs to tell me how our relationship should have gone, and if I then don't feel bad about it, that's OK, right?

Sounds more than OK to me, connie. If you give it another shot and the situation hasn't changed, nothing wrong in cutting your losses.

Hello my lovelies.

P-C!!!!!!!!!!!!!

P-C!!!!! Hi!!!!

Blast, my catch up before bed (said bed being delayed to post this) is interrupted in the happiest way by a P-C post.

Now that I know you're safe, Mr. Cow, I shall retire and sleep the rest of the night away.

Glad you're home.

Yay, P-Cow has returned to us!

I have this theory percolating in my brain on what it can mean to be soul mates, and truly know someone else's soul. It is very dark right now. Which is skewed because I honestly believe that you can have that and have it be a really positive thing. Hell, I think I've even seen it in other people. Rarely, but I have.

One of the Useful Concepts I got from my divorce book was the idea of Negative Intimacy (and also, more applicable in my case, Neutral Intimacy). That deep knowledge of somebody can get flipped pretty quickly during a separation - crazy mirror world where the love becomes contempt and the trust is pain.

P-C!!!! Hi!! We missed you!!!!

Could I possilby abuse punctuation more than that? I'm not even going to try.

Sunil!!! Yay! We've missed you very much.

edit: And I'm crashing, so off to bed I go. I'm glad to see you again!

{{{{{PC}}}}}!!!!!!

Ummm, sorry, those bits on the floor would be the stuffing which has just been hugged out of you. And I don't care if there was a sub-continent between you and the troubles, I kept having uneasy thoughts of "Maybe they decided to visit the shore."

Yay. He's home.

Hi P-C!