It can be very frustrating when two of the people one loves the most don't gel!
Especially when one of those two seems quite happy in the others company, and the other seems bored out of their head!
And I am in the middle!
Funny, but I imagine they would have so much to talk about at my funeral!
What funeral? Are you trying to be funny? Maybe you're misreading all the signals. I do that a lot.
ReplyDeleteThis kind of thing happens all the time. I mean, how many people do you know who you really like, are great friends, but their partner is a waste of space? Or worse, when one of your kids goes out with someone and you cannot for the life of you understand what they see in them.
ReplyDeleteFor your friend, or kid, then we are part of their problem in the same way you talk of it - being in the middle.
We might try to make the effort, but I can think of one case in particular where we stopped seeing one friend because her fella was such an annoying prick he drove us nuts. She clearly wanted to stay with him, even though we could never figure out why. We tried, for her sake, but it got to a point where we couldn't face going round there if we knew he was.
I guess she never saw him in the way we did.
I'm not saying either of your loved ones is anything less than loveable - just sometimes personalities clash, and I'd be amazed if you've never been on one side of that.
But it is a pain to be the one in the middle. I do understand, and you do have my sympathy
Well, they might have a lot to talk about at your funeral, but neither of them wants to attend for a few years.
ReplyDeleteHey, it happens----let it be
Mix a wee dram or two in there and see where it goes. Nothing like a bit o' the sauce to loosen the inhibitions.
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Ah, being the Diplomat is often the hardest role in the family...right after "Care giver".
ReplyDeleteYou have my sympathy...but enough funeral talk, okay?! ;)
Yeah, no more talk of funerals!! Even in jest. I think Kim nailed it on the head... personality conflicts. So just love them both and let them be. Not much you can do! xoxoxo
ReplyDeleteI lost you then I found you again:)
ReplyDeleteUB; Yes, trying to be funny! And no, not misreading the signals, one of them does bore the tits off the other. She told me! :¬)
ReplyDeleteKim; We've found a compromise, I socialise with each of them separately! And everybody is happy! :¬)
Clyde; What I meant was, I have overheard on many occassions, people chatting together at funerals about the deceased, and these very same people would avoid each other at all costs on a normal day! I hope it is a long time in the future before anyone is spending money on wreaths for me! :¬)
ReplyDeleteSausage; Unfortunately, it is always in the pub that this happens! :¬)
hope; Agreed, on all counts! :¬)
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Pon; You are right, of course! :¬)
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Pat; Thank heavens for that! I feel like Bo Peep's lost sheep! :¬)
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They're not married are they? That's what always seems to happen to married couples....
ReplyDeletewell, seems you've already instituted the recommendation that i was going to make - so - all's well that end's well, dear map! but it does make it a bit uncomfortable to be that one in the middle - been there done that myself! hugs to you and yours, dear sir!
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