NLW OMG I relate to this type of thing. Many many years on my xh is bemoaning a lack of relationship with his now adult children.
Me, but you moved over 1000 miles away. Xh but that is where my life is (me, not saying, but thinking) yes, but it wasn't until you moved there . . He actually has a home near them as well but scarcely spends any time there. At one point he was also thinking of moving to another continent.
The idea that relationships needs either proximity of work never enters their brain, until a lot later down the line.
His latest scheme is to become a novelist!! (He writes very serious academic tomes, or did pre MLC).
Me (interested voice) oh how much have you written? XH - nothing yet I am still thinking about it.
I was tempted to give the Peter Cook response to the man who said at a party 'I am writing a novel' to which Peter Cook replied 'Neither am I'
