If you can't give me everything, don't you give me nothing at all

There is nothing more frustrating that having to watch a relationship that should never have been sputter and cough and die in slow motion--especially when you're not even in the relationship in the first place.

A friend of mine has been seeing a married man who lives in California for several years now, and for nearly as long, I've been Dr. Love on-call when things go awry. Which is every single afternoon. Now, I know as well as you do that these things never work out, that he's always going to be leaving his wife next month, that he's sorry he can't come out again this weekend and that maybe the little blue box he's sending over will help smooth things out.

I don't know, the whole thing is frustrating and, when it's not frustrating, it's at least depressing and sad. If only because she's actually not in it for the blue boxes, but for the long run. The other day she was talking about how she's been forced to give up her extra parking space and lamented "This just sucks because when Ted moves out here and we get married he won't have a place to park"

(sfx:"boing" )

Every other person in her life has pretty much told her, in the immortal words of that white Rapper, "Drop the zero and get with a hero," but she's in LOVE. Since I'm a much nicer person in real life, I try to be supportive, or as much so as one can be given the circumstances. I'm pretty much to the point where I try to get her to admit every week that she's already broken up with him in her head, which she does, and then point out that maybe that should tell her something. Which it doesn't.

I don't know, I'm pretty much at the end of my rope. I've had it with keeping my little black bag next to door, at the ready and full of cookie dough and Xanax. I don't know what to do, but I have a feeling it's going to be a lot less than I've been doing so far.

On a semi-related topic, Dana insists that I keep this funny and, re-reading this entry, it's really not. So pretend that this "Friend" is really George Foreman and that "Ted" is also George Foreman. That's fucking hilarious.