Greener Grass

The worst trait a man can possess is the tendency to move on to the next relationship before dealing with the one at hand. Please. Treat me with courtesy. Either decide that what we have is working or not, is earmarked to move forward or not, and communicate that with me — face to face, preferably — before hooking up with someone else.

I will give Frank points for telling me to my face that he had found someone else. Unlike the Lemonade Tycoon who broke up with me in an e-mail. Oh right, Frank doesn't e-mail and doesn't know how to text message, so those weren't threats!

I gave him a piece of advice before he left: take your on-line profiles down or hide them. Don't keep implicitly telling her that you think there's someone better out there. He looked at me like he didn't believe me. I think he really doesn't get it.

Oh well, that would be her problem now, not mine. Right?

Bless Tyler's heart for solicitously calling me last night to make sure I was okay. During our conversations yesterday I told him a story I'll pass along here now. A couple of weeks ago the babies and I were at Frank's house. As we left, they rolled down the windows and signed "I love you" and called out, "Bye, Frank. Love you. Love you." He couldn't even say "love you" back. C'mon. They're five and three years old. You're not making a commitment to them. In a month they'll be gone and you'll probably never see them again. In six months, they won't even remember your name. What would it hurt you to say "I love you" to sweet, beautiful babies?

Please tell me what it says about a man who can't reply in kind to open hearts?