Reading Don and Janet's posts about the reaction of her friend K to their relationship really got me thinking Like them, I found K's whole view to just be crazy, and she comes across as being shallow and completely insensitive on so many levels.

In some ways, I did get some similar reactions when I started Ray. A lot of people were surprised that I was so happy with him because he is not a "brain" like me. He is by no means stupid, but because he didn't have a formal education, people made assumptions about him. It did not matter that he could talk rings around people when it comes to his knowledge of ancient Egypt. He probably knows enough to have a doctorate in that.

Maybe some of it is due to his size. Do they think Neanderthal? I don't really know. It is just strange. I can only guess that some of his friends and family looked at me and though that I was a hoity-toity nerd.

The thing that is most important is that people got to see us together and realized how happy the two of us made each other.

Well, I heard this on the radio and thought I would share it with Janet, Don, and the rest of you because it really sums things up quite nicely. It is kind of a vocal middle finger to the people who are being too judgemental.


"Let's Hear It for the Boy" by Deniece Williams>

All that matters is that "he really, really loves me!"