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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Is it a reference I don't get, or do you happen to know someone else in a strikingly similar situation?

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Ah yeah the latter. Sorry, I don't know what kind of answer I was expecting there. He's a really well-rounded guy with a great career, nice house, but his partner has always been on the rocky side and then she developed a mental illness that has addled her brain to that of pure paranoia, or to that of a child. I don't know how he copes to be honest, but he exhudes a calm confidence that seems to defy the situation he is in