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WDCT 10-14 January 2011 (1836-1840)

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TheEvilDog:

--- Quote from: cuzsis on 12 Jan 2011, 18:26 --- -If the person giving you advice has been married/together for 10+yrs. You may want to consider it. They've got enough experience and wisdom to start seeing past most of the crap.

 -If the person giving you advice is giving you advice about what caused them to breakup/divorce. You may want to consider it. They've already screwed the pooch on this particular issue.

 -If the person giving you advice is none of these, then only consider it long enough to see if it makes sense and if it doesn't, don't bother about it. They are likely just talking out of their collective buttholes. I'm not saying they're doing it on purpose or to be mean...but they almost certainly don't know enough about relationships (much less the intricacies of yours, which you'll never be able to tell them all the minute details anyway without taking several years to do it) to give good advice unless they hit the monkey on the keyboard just right by accident.  :psyduck:

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- In all fairness, Veronica and Henry were married for about 10 years before the divorce, that one kinda falls flat on its ass.

- Veronica and Henry divorced because of the fact Henry was gay, so unless Marten ended up following in his dad's footsteps, its two completely different issues, and thus any advice is next to useless in that context. It's like offering a hammer when what's needed is a screwdriver.

- This is about the only point I kinda agree with you with. Veronica is talking out of her own ass. From what I've gathered, Veronica really hasn't a romantic relationship since Henry and to be honest, I can't imagine it would have been that passionate. In fact, a lot of the evidence kinda points to Veronica having a lot of one night stands, pretty much the opposite of Marten and Henry. Pretty much any advice she gives is the same as when Sven tried to advise Wil about Penny and comparing it to teaching a Bedouin how to sail.

And the longer this story arc goes on, the more I wish Henry and Maurice were the ones in town again.....

PenSwordAccord:
I will tell you why I am worried about this arc, and, yes,  I know that Jeph is highly unlikely to do anything like this.  This whole arc reminds me most uncomfortably of Turtledove's "World War" series and the Sam/Barbara/Jens storyline.  Not in the details, obviously, but in the general line of a guy getting dumped for no good/valid reason and everyone in his world supporting the cheating/dumping lady and crapping on the faithful guy.  The results were not pretty, and completely turned me off of reading any more of Turtledove's books.  I have to keep reminding myself to "trust in the author, Luke". 

Lee

pen & sword, in accord.
What is the sound of one hand clapping, anyway?

DonInKansas:

--- Quote from: TheEvilDog on 12 Jan 2011, 12:56 ---
I said this last week, but I do feel the need to say it again, whatever Veronica has in mind, she is serious danger of damaging her own relationship with Marten.

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Either that or she's craftily trying to force him to sack up, blow his top, and shake him out of his stupor.  She's not stupid enough (and doesn't hate Marten enough) to just take cracks without a plan involved.

Is it cold in here?:
In 447, Ms. Reed was downright humble about whether she'd be able to offer good advice given her relationship track record.

rje:
Neh I stopped thinking awhile bad there's method in the madness. Veronica's just kinda being a sucky mom. Is that a bit disappointing since she kind of came off like Super Awesome Mom at first glance before? Yeah. Is it realistic? Oh hell yeah. I know plenty of people who have moms who aren't terrible, but they're just kind of...sucky. They might be judgmental, or overbearing, or kind of anal retentive, or prone to dismiss their children's opinions, complaints, or issues, but they still love their children very much, and are great in other ways.

So I'm not all GRR THAT WOMAN but I'd love to see - as part of the arc I ~hope~ Marten starts on, where he begins to take active control of his life, instead of being a passive observer - that he talks to her about her lack of real understanding. Or maybe Faye will!

Also today's comic made me lol, such a poke in the eye to the shippers (too bad that one dude left, I kinda wanted to hear his take on it, fufufu.)

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