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All men in relationships are SOBs...

Ken Braiterman — Sun, 18 May 2008 16:29:17 -0400

...especially me. I don't even know your ex. I just figure he's like me: lazy, self-absorbed, inattentive, selectively deaf, selectively forgetful -- LIKE ALL MEN IN RELATIONSHIPS. :0)

Thanks, Ken

Linda Odum — Tue, 13 May 2008 08:10:58 -0400

Ken,

Thanks for the support, but don't judge my soon-to-be ex too harshly. We were both SOBs at times, and it take two people to make a marriage succeed or fail.

I have to catch myself, too, sometimes to make sure I don't pour my heart out for all of the world to see. I try to take a moment and look at things objectively before I post. I think that is the best way to let readers learn from my mistakes and successes.

Linda

Hang in there, Linda Odum

Ken Braiterman — Sun, 11 May 2008 10:12:57 -0400

I've enjoyed reading your columns on separating from your husband. You don't whine or blame the immature SOB. Thats what allows you to write intimate columns about your real life. Your writing is not sentimental or self-pitying. Sentiment is good for a writer; sentimenality is bad. The classic example are these different images of home. Robert Frost said, "Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in." Edgar Guest, a very popular, slighly older version of Robert Frost wrote, "Home is where the heart is." If you gotta ask what's the difference, you ain't never gonna know.