When you work in a technical field quite often you family and friends have no idea what it is you actually know. Even when I have walk my family around something I have created, I see that it slides right past their comprehension and they have no appreciation for it. When Mr. BTSGM stepped up and was recognized, I think it kind of POd D17 and W. Although I think W kind of remembers back in the day when I did this professionally.
Before this little "tiff", I suspected that D17 was just trying to please W and live up to W high vision of her. Also D17 likes people to fuss over her. (WOA) W however, has been trying to redefine her life (MLC) and appear that she is making big changes, redefining who she is so that if she goes WAW everyone "important" knows who she is. But the catch is she relies on me too much to facilitate her "redefining" activities. So eventually, if she's honest, they know that I'm still in the picture. Of course being well trained and experienced in the technical side of what she is trying to accomplish makes it a "why doesn't PS get more involved in what you are doing?" "Why doesn't PS do ____ for us?"
Of course if they approach me directly, I don't turn them down, I share my talents. So I think, especially D17 didn't like the fact that she did not have full monopoly of W and her MLC, along with the "spotlight". Now here's the funny part, after it all blew by the first night, neither one seem to mind too much. We'll see if they decide to do it again next year. Perhaps W decided that she found something she could be proud of me about.
In fact W has been better, more positive to me since then, not sure why. Perhaps she is seeing it as me being more supportive of her activities. I feel that as a couple I should try to do what I can with her if it's a common interest.
