Apr 17, 2011 15:43
I'm Vicka's spouse, and have seen her interact with her partners and their partners, as well as other people in relationships of various sorts, for 13 years now. These have included relationships she has liked and relationships she has not approved of; relationships where she has liked both people and ones where she has liked only one; and relationships she has thought were a good fit and ones she has thought were not workable. In no case have I seen her try to break up a relationship, even when she thought it would be better for both people involved, and regardless of whether she liked the people or not. I have seen her try to do a whole lot to support other people's relationships. At times, I think she's done too much to support unworkable relationships, where the people involved would not be able to come to a mutally acceptable agreement and could have been saved a lot of angst and recrimination by giving up sooner.
I have never seen her happy at anyone else's misfortune. I've sometimes seen her happy about a breakup when it led to the people being happier, but this was in response to her friends doing better. At times, she's been privately glad when she thought someone could start the healing process from a bad situation, even though the person was not yet feeling better, but only when she thought the change would ultimately be good for the person.