Yesterday morning I asked my Social Director (DW) to make arrangements with some friends to meet for lunch. They live two hours away and we've collectively been intending to meet halfway somewhere on a day when no one has any schedule conflicts but this has been getting put off for months now.
Now, if Rick and I were assigned this task the phone call would last somewhere between 30 seconds and five minutes, max. And it would get done, as in finished.
DW's call lasted two hours. And we still don't have a firm time/date/location.
Intellectually, reasonably, logically, I sort of have a faint and dim comprehension of why this happens, since I read an earlier edition of You Just Don't Understand! about 26 years ago. It was an eye-opener and I still remember thinking "Oh, that's why she does that" many times through the book. It's not about getting anything specific done, it's about maintaining relationships. Yeah, got that part.
Don't misunderstand, DW is a sweetheart and I love her dearly.
But we still don't have a lunch time or location.
Now, if Rick and I were assigned this task the phone call would last somewhere between 30 seconds and five minutes, max. And it would get done, as in finished.
DW's call lasted two hours. And we still don't have a firm time/date/location.
Intellectually, reasonably, logically, I sort of have a faint and dim comprehension of why this happens, since I read an earlier edition of You Just Don't Understand! about 26 years ago. It was an eye-opener and I still remember thinking "Oh, that's why she does that" many times through the book. It's not about getting anything specific done, it's about maintaining relationships. Yeah, got that part.
Don't misunderstand, DW is a sweetheart and I love her dearly.
But we still don't have a lunch time or location.