...talked to my sister last night, and although they have filed for divorce, she and her (ex?) husband are planning on spending the holiday together, so they may all come over here for dinner. Can you say awkward?
I would take that as a compliment to you, madam.
At least that's the way it's always been explained to me.
I've always been uncomfortable when dealing with two people waging hostilities against each other, letting their hair down so to say, letting it all hang out.
It happens to me all the time, and I wish it didn't.
Being deaf, unaware of what's being said, anything I say, even an innocent comment about the weather, can be volatile, exacerbating the matter.
It happens to me all the time, considerably ageing me.
I got really tired of this one time--"happily married" couples nagging each other in front of me, but in front of no one else, &c., &c., &c.--and inquired of a physician about it.
He suggested such people are comfortable "being themselves" when around me, while they're not comfortable being honest in front of other people, and so I should take it as a compliment to myself, that people do this.
Well, okay, but that doesn't get rid of the knitting-needles in the stomach.
