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“How Do You Show Appreciation, Ya Know, Aside From Sex?”
I’m on a roll with random posts today that begin with anecdotes, so I will do that again here.
I got divorced in early 2017. Thereafter, I had a brief fling with a woman I used to work with. That was over so quickly that by January 2018, we never spoke again. I did once write about this.
Well, before any of that happened, and when we were both married to other people, we sometimes had overlapping projects at work. I was in Texas and she was in Seattle, so all of our comms was on Yammer (ha! remember that?) or Microsoft Teams. I would not say it ever got “steamy,” because let’s recall I just said we were both married to other people at the time, but we did talk about relationships.
So, I remember one time in probably early 2015, my marriage was struggling for various reasons, most of which I could assignate to myself in hindsight. Me and this woman in Seattle were talking about relationships and she said something to the extent…