I bow to your superior knowledge of him and the subject matter. But there's something odd there I can't quite put my finger on.
Well, here are a couple things that stick with me. I met my 2bx when we were both working at a campus party store. We were casual friends who hung out in the same large social circle for over a year before we started seeing each other. Anyway, there was this really sexually aggressive guy who worked at the same party store and he was always hitting on me ( I once lodged a complaint with the 30-something guy who ran the store along the lines of "____ grabbed my *ss behind the counter. Do you think that is appropriate?" Of course, being the never-to-be-taken-seriously person that I am, the response I got was "I'll talk to him." with a subtext of "and we'll laugh our *sses off.") When this macho-to-the-point-of-obnoxious guy found out I was dating my 2bx his response was sort of like "Well, if that's what you like, I can see why you didn't go for me."
Another thing. Years later my 2bx and I worked for the same company but at different locations. I had a good friend co-worker who was one of the world's biggest natural flirts and very attractive. She actually had a brief affair with a guy who is probably one of the Top 20 most eligible bachelors on the planet. One day she spent some time interacting with my 2bx. We were talking later and she said "Your H is kind of weird." which is not exactly an appropriate thing to say to a friend but I knew just why she felt that way. She was baffled because he was resistant to her social flirtation. Actually, my 2bx was sometimes rude when women flirted with him because he found such behavior so annoying. In a way I think he viewed it as competitive behavior. It kind of goes along with the fact that I think most people think I'm kind of funny but my 2bx rarely did because he had to be the funny one. I always had to be the straight guy in our relationship.
Interesting. This probably all adds up to something. Not that it really matters. The bottom line is of this particular equation will always be "thank goodness he's gone".
