denver, your input is always very welcome and appreciated and i do get what you are saying..........i am making this very easy for him it's hard tho' because he has been abandoned so many times in his life and he only has a few close friends (he alienates people very easily - he is a disconnected person) i feel like i want to be the one who is always there but i know you are right let him see how it will be with the one he depends on the most gone so thank you funny, i just got an email from him, that must have been delayed a day as he was so far away but he was just hoping we were ok, because of the ice storm that was coming (already came and went_) i read nothing into it this time, save for the fact that he cares for the people he loves i am also feeling ok with that i hope you are having a great day are you? (or at least an ok day?)