[gmku]

Difficult for me as well. Complicated. I used to love my sister-in-law. I think at one point early in my marriage I was actually infatuated with her. Now I have this love/hate feeling about her. She has a great sense of humor, she's smart. But she seems to have lost the humanity I loved about her. She's become very "corporate," for lack of a better word. She is all about technology and having the latest thing, her Lexus sedan is loaded, she's loaded (with money), she thinks I'm weird for collecting LPs, and she is so into NPR that she collects NPR podcasts and saves them. Her taste in music, which in the 70s verged on edgy, is now MOR adult-oriented blah blah blah. And she asks nothing about how my life or work is going. She's single and self-centered. I don't completely hate her, but after a day or two with her, I'm completely annoyed by her self-absorption. It was almost painful to hear her complain the other day about how my daughter's Golden Retriever pays attention to everyone but her. Um, there's your sign...