Dear Smilinize, Meredith, and Lynn,

Thank you for your kind words. I think I feel sorry for him because in spite of it all, he *is* a good person who says he isn't into the bar scene, his heart is in the right place when it comes to national world affairs, and he said that he would fight anyone who would hurt me. Even yesterday.

But then I remember that he blew off my mom's 65th birthday party to go to Las Vegas with his brother, which he could have done any weekend, his habit of playing video pinball while I patienly waited for him, the fact that he asked me to buy Christmas gifts for his parents while never volunteering to do anything for my mom, and I have to wonder that perhaps he has a few things to learn about love, too.