/sigh

[verycontrary247]

S is underway at the moment, so I've been hanging out with one of the other wives from his ship pretty often. We go to the gym, dinner, just hang out. This would be awesome except the entire time we're hanging out she just asks if S has contacted me that day, complains that her H has not, asks me what they are doing, wants me to tell S to tell her H to contact her (S and her H are friends and are often together while in port). This goes into deep discussions about how much her marriage sucks and she can't trust him blahblahblah.

I really like her and S really likes her H, but as a couple they are a disaster. I want to be there for her as a friend she can talk to (especially since all her family/friends are really far away), but I feel like that's all we talk about anymore and frankly it's pretty depressing.

This is more of a vent than I intended it to be, sorry!

[ggirl]

That does suck. I've had that happen and usually I would just change the topic if possible or mention that they have been busy, etc. If it was a NBD message to pass along, I've done that before. Heck, I've had a wife do it for me before when I couldn't get a hold of H and his car (his baby) wouldn't start and I didn't know if he wanted me to do anything about it (have it towed, etc, H is a mechanic so he does most of his own work). I would try to avoid mentioning the guys or that you heard from H if possible.

[amaristella]

Man that does suck. Sometimes we get people asking around casually if anyone has gotten an email lately and usually it just turns out that nobody has or that they received a 5 word email saying they were busy.

Hopefully you can come up with something else to talk about soon!