... but I'm going to vent anyway.
BLOODY HELL!
Am woken from a precious lie-in this morning by dh bringing the phone up. On the line, a female friend of my dad's. A girlfriend, I think, as he left my mum for her umpty years ago, but he has had several other girlfriends since and she lives in another country, so I don't know their relationship status. I guess I don't care enough to ask. I've never met her and have only spoken to her once before. Anyway, she says that my dad is behaving 'unacceptably' by not calling when he says he will, and can I tell him this, as she is now clinically depressed and him breaking promises is very bad in her situation?
I wish I were woman enough to say to her that I expect human beings over 21 to sort out their own relationships. Anyway, isn't she from the generation that always complains about no-one writing a letter any more, why the hell doesn't she write to him, or move to the same country, if she's so desperate to be in touch? And if she's only just worked out after 16 years that you can't believe a word my dad says, she's had quite a good time of it really, I'd worked that out by the time I was 11.
It's depressing to think we may still be doing this relationship shit aged 100. Anyone fancy joining a convent on retirement?