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Posted: Tue Aug 25, 2009 5:44 pm
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Posted: Tue Aug 25, 2009 6:03 pm
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Well, don't be afraid to say that. You can actually tell the guy that you have no idea how to comfort him. I mean, can you really even imagine what the guy must be going through? His wife dies while he is tied up with work, and they don't really know how. All sorts of horrible scenarios begin to flood into his mind, including but limiting to the rabbit scenario (they die if they get too lonely) and potential mind-shattering circumstances that the wife would never be able to live down (something horrible like rape, adultery and becoming with child from another man, or some form of psychological torture that took place over time). Since this has never happened to you, me, or the average John Q. Public, there is absolutely no feasible way you can accurately soothe this. At least, not until the autopsy comes back. ...Of course, now that I think on it, what was he doing out of state without his wife anyway? Is he military, or business? (Forgive me if I happen to stir things wrongly, but this is how my brain tends to follow these type of things. I'm a bit of a pessimist, you see.)
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Posted: Tue Aug 25, 2009 6:11 pm
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Posted: Tue Aug 25, 2009 11:10 pm
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Profitable Conversationalist
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Posted: Wed Aug 26, 2009 3:28 pm
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Erverain Well, don't be afraid to say that. You can actually tell the guy that you have no idea how to comfort him. I mean, can you really even imagine what the guy must be going through? His wife dies while he is tied up with work, and they don't really know how. All sorts of horrible scenarios begin to flood into his mind, including but limiting to the rabbit scenario (they die if they get too lonely) and potential mind-shattering circumstances that the wife would never be able to live down (something horrible like rape, adultery and becoming with child from another man, or some form of psychological torture that took place over time). Since this has never happened to you, me, or the average John Q. Public, there is absolutely no feasible way you can accurately soothe this. At least, not until the autopsy comes back. ...Of course, now that I think on it, what was he doing out of state without his wife anyway? Is he military, or business? (Forgive me if I happen to stir things wrongly, but this is how my brain tends to follow these type of things. I'm a bit of a pessimist, you see.)
He's in Georgia for work. She'd been out to visit him on and off, so it wasn't like they didn't get to see one another, but her job was on the west coast, and he isn't going to be in Georgia permanently. She didn't want to give up her job and they needed the money.
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Posted: Wed Aug 26, 2009 9:40 pm
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