Thanks for your input, LL. I guess it just turned out to be a vent, and not a very good one at that. I've been working on it for a couple of days, thinking about it, adding to it, trying to get in there everything I wanted to say from every angle, but I think I got fuzzy around the edges. You're right, it reads like a letter to W, which it's really not intended as, but maybe the frustrations of the past day or so got mangled up in there.
Good idea about trying to respond to it point-by-point as if I were W. It might help me to think from her perspective a bit. Earlier this evening I dropped down into the DR forum, and read the first chapter. It did make me think that it might be useful to ask myself "what am I doing to contribute to my sitch?" I do take responsibility for my part, I think. I don't believe I'm blaming it all on her, but maybe I get in the habit of whining sometimes, and forget that it takes two to make a sitch.
Of course, if I followed your suggestion literally, I think I'd end up arguing with myself, and if I couldn't agree with myself, I guess I'd have to leave myself...
