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Sweetie Pie – is incredibly deserving of the name. She is a kind, loving, nurturing, helpful, considerate, understanding, caring soul. As a perfect example, she has a terrible problem with competitive games that require you to make deals with other players. She will always make the deal that helps the other player. The funny thing is, it’s not a problem for her, she has won by helping her competitor win. Sweetie Pie!!
Sweetie Pie was, or thought she was, a one man woman married for life. 16 years with the first man she really fell in love with. No children but a life filled with adventure, art and travel. As a professional photographer she had worked travelling on her own through France, spending a month in Paris roaming the streets, immersed in her art. Opportunities to travel to Australia and the Carribean were pursued. She worked as a still photographer for a number of independent films, getting the chance to work with some impressive artists. Her ex was a computer scientist with an avocation for the violin. He made good money with computing (I can relate) but he loved the violin. He played in symphonies for a long time but began experimental electric violin performances at some new age spirituality venues he was drawn to.
Sweetie Pie says her marriage had a more gradual decline than mine but it was steady and unnerving. Her ex began displaying two distinct personalities – Computer Scientist and Performance Artist. Eventually Performance Artist won out. He now goes by a made up stage name and has for all intents and purposes abandoned his previous life. He asked Sweetie Pie for an open marriage. She ain’t that understanding.
Sweetie Pie had been divorced for 2 years when we met and her experiences and outlooks were very similar to mine. Many of the things she told me during our early relationship have come to pass. Things I could not see happening at the time. She has been a great friend, confidant and guide for me.
I don’t want to delve too deeply into Sweetie Pie’s feelings for me or her experience of our relationship, it’s a little too self-aggrandizing even for a hornblower like me. What I will say is she lets me know regularly how much she cares for me and makes me feel incredibly lucky nearly every moment I’m with her.
