Quote: Right as I was putting my face in my hands and “tuning up,” as my Dad always said, S. said, “Jennifer, let me reiterate something to you, because I want to make this perfectly clear. I want to be happy with you, in a relationship with you, and my ultimate goal is for us to be happy, together.”
Wow - that's a pretty big admission on his part
Quote: but the volume of very young women S. “meets and connects with on an intimately intellectual level” is quite troublesome to me, considering his age [41] and dearth of male friends or women friends closer to his age.) I was able to say that the reason young women are the ones who he connects with - and not older women, or men - is that these women are available. They are more naïve, ready to meet people, and perhaps more effusive about talking about subjects that are closer to the things they studied in college. I said that no 40-year-old woman in a happily monogamous R would give him her phone number in a bar in order to continue a conversation about Anna Karenina.
DUH!!! Sounds like SO has a pretty fragile ego - and needs to feel important by having some young thing look up to his "profound" insights (which his forty-something friends might not be so impressed with, right?).
