Fast track to her divorcing me

[Cautious]

Some people can smell fear, you can smell MLC? Haha!

It seems it's all too easy to take a trip back in time when you catch up with old friends, until they see your life as it really is now. She's probably guarding against that, though, by keeping her guard up and telling lavish stories about her successes. Did she, by chance, ever go to any HS reunions? If not, they have no idea what she's up to, she can tell them anything. If so, they only have a vague idea and probably think it's as great as she says it is. She likely won't let them get close enough to see the truth for what it really is.

Some people don't really want people to be close to them until there's no one left to get close to. Not to bring this to my sitch, but it definitely seems like ExCautious is making certain none of his surroundings get too close to the truth about himself either.