I need to know if I should say this : "I know I asked you to keep in touch with me because I was concerned about your safety, you don't have to. It was a ploy to keep in contact with you, and I'm finding that too hard. I can't walk away from our marriage as easy as you, so you don't have to contact me -- if something important comes up I'll contact you. I can't just forget the way I feel, and I don't want to. If you decide you want to give it a try then contact me, ok? Take care"
or do I just let it go and see what happens?
That entire statement is a combination of an apology and a plea for contact.
What do you think you should do?
Did you ever see the Matthew Broderick movie 'War Games'? He hacked into a computer and started a game called 'Global Thermonuclear War' by mistake in the Defense departments computers.
The 'silly' ending was that the computer didn't want to stop the game, and wanted to launch missiles ans such, but 'learned' that nuclear war was a game that couldn't be won by being shown that, if you play tic tac toe, the outcome should always be a draw.
Yeah, silly.
However, there was one very important lesson that I've always remembered from that movie. When it comes to any unwinnable situation, one where the players are both set up to lose, there is one real truth. And that is:
