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This post is for kaelie <3

My goodness, it's been months. That's a function of both winter brain fog and a touch of depression, I think.

But let's see,

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I hate to be a bummer, Kaelie, but he really is an ass. It's not on a huge scale, but it's subtle and takes a toll. For example, Erin has been having GI issues. She had a colonoscopy a while ago and her doc said she has a bit of an irritable bowel. She prescribed antihistamines to settle it down, mentioned that would help Erin sleep, and told her to find a therapist.

Somehow, Erin and Nic translated those meds into some kind of anti-depressant, and when she was so unhappy this winter, every time she showed that she was upset with him he would ask her if she'd taken her pills. Like if she just wasn't so crazy, things would be fine. One time when she said no, he asked her if she was trying to ruin their marriage.

So, subtle, but there. And I don't know if he's consciously trying to isolate her from friends and family, but we haven't been to Beatlefest since they got married, (I do understand that she's got a job, a husband and a kid now and she can't just run off and have fun any time she feels like it, but he makes no effort to make those kind of things possible just because they're important to her and he loves her) he disses Disney World all the time, even though that's what we as a family do, fights with her every step of the way on every little thing, complains about me being too familiar, whatever that means, and is now moving her away.

Again, is that a conscious plan? I may be seeing too much there, it's certainly possible. I may not be seeing things with an unbiased eye, I'll admit.

He did say that he needs to stop automatically saying no every time she opens her mouth. Things have been much better, and of course nothing is ever 100% one person's fault. She's not easy and she never has been. And at first we really liked him, because he made her laugh, which is pretty impressive. But over time, it's just gotten...not so funny.

Anyway, we'll see. I'm tempted to tell him before they leave that I'm watching, I'm paying attention, and that I'm on to him.

The best part is that Ohio State just made Larry a full professor, which is just killing Nic. It didn't even take four years, although one, it's a totally different academic situation from Nic's, what with Larry being the director of the burn program and not actually teaching, and having started at associate professor, not assistant like Nic did, but it's still quite satisfying. I think Nic will be an associate professor at Middlebury, and he's just so envious.

Not that I'm petty enough to enjoy something like that. :)

Nic enrages Ashley but she's willing to wait and see how things go in Vermont. It's not like we won't all be paying close attention.

When they got married, they put Erin's condo into both their names, I think. They'll be living in faculty housing in VT, at least at first, so they won't be making any big financial commitment yet. And she knows she and Sebastian can come back here to us any time they want or need to.

Thank you, bb.