Me and my 2 daughters

[bttrfly]

hey buddy. it's me. checking in. so you survived Vegas, that's great! Man, it left me cold and feeling in need of a good scrubbing, but the desert was beautiful! I recommend going back there between Oct-April, when the weather is more tolerable. Great place to photograph at dawn and dusk ... the Milky Way was gorgeous at night. as for the strip - avoided it like the plague when I was there.

Yeah, this affects others way more than we realize. In my case, it seemed like a few friends were in shock mode, maybe thinking if this could happen to us it could happen to them too. You could always tell that we really loved each other a lot. I actually got a pm today from an old friend asking if my ex was off FB now, and are he and I speaking, cordial, etc. She was stunned when my reply was an unhesitating, "of course, we love each other a lot."
She asked why the D ... I said, dunno, guess he doesn't want to be married and gave her his email/phone #. She's his mom's age, and closer to ex than me - he used to rent/share office space with her. She's awesome, been through her own D years before. Lovely, lovely person. I'm happy to help her get in touch with him. What he does with it is none of my business.
My folks are absolutely devastated by this. For them, they're worried about me, their grandson, their son-in-law, whom they've loved as a son for 26 years. They want to alternately shake him and hug him. My heart breaks for them, but I can't help them with it.
Dunno. I feel like divorce and MLC are a cancer that spreads far and wide.