I actually admire Dan Savage's rather brutal realism about relationship situations - his answer to the next letter right after that one was spot-on and what was needed, a bucket of cold ice water on the letter-writer - but going on the evidence to ask someone to deliver that bucket by proxy is wrong, because a) who knows if the facts are as represented? She may have "gotten fat" because she had his kid! b) The guy sounds from his verbiage like a twit who couldn't string two clauses together withough using "totally" or "gnarly", usually next to one another.
I think if this guy is dissatisfied with his partner, then he does owe her an explanation of why he's dissatisfied. But starting the conversation out with "Sooooo-ee!!" may not be the best course of action.
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Date: 2007-11-21 01:46 pm (UTC)I actually admire Dan Savage's rather brutal realism about relationship situations - his answer to the next letter right after that one was spot-on and what was needed, a bucket of cold ice water on the letter-writer - but going on the evidence to ask someone to deliver that bucket by proxy is wrong, because a) who knows if the facts are as represented? She may have "gotten fat" because she had his kid! b) The guy sounds from his verbiage like a twit who couldn't string two clauses together withough using "totally" or "gnarly", usually next to one another.
I think if this guy is dissatisfied with his partner, then he does owe her an explanation of why he's dissatisfied. But starting the conversation out with "Sooooo-ee!!" may not be the best course of action.