Failure to Communicate

 How many times have you heard the phrase “What we’ve got here is a failure to communicate” ?  You remember especially if you grew up in the sixties, the famous line from the movie Cool Hand Luke with Paul Newman.

 Telephones are in my opinion one of the greatest inventions.  How communication has evolved since the wires were first connected, we are now wireless!   However, the same

technology that improves communication throughout the world is stifling it just the same closer to home, giving way to huge gaps in one on one relationships.

 Observing my son and daughter, I realized their fingers were their main means of communicating with friends and significant others.  To watch as they try to handle dating, concerns and schedules to name a few, via text messaging is truly disheartening. 

How much time and money is spent teaching the correct application of language only to see for the expediency of texting be sacrificed.  Think about it, shorthand even gets edited to inject interpretation back into the text.

 In today’s society texting has its place to facilitate our fast paced environment.  It is unfortunate however that texting has taken the meaning out of words, eliminating the voice inflection of devotion, disappointment, joy and excitement.  Texting leaves the mind to wonder at times what the intent of the message really is.

 Timely

I've been legally separated for 8 months now. I left my husband after 16 years because I was tired of living with a chauvinistic domineering man. He doesn't see anything wrong with going to the local bar and hanging out with "the boys" every night; I can go too if I want! It’s a long story and we were both wrong and did things we shouldn’t have but that are not the issue now. He wants to get back together because he still "loves" me. I signed off on all of his goverment benefits; retirement, death benefits and medical coverage after a year. I will still receive half of the proceeds from the house...if and when it sells. It is suppose to be on the market now but he doesn't want to sell it.

I have recently been laid off from work; I am renting and have my 18 year old grandson living with me. I am beginning to have financial problems and I am taking a look at different options. One of which is to go back to my husband and be financially stable but resume being a "wife" which includes; earning an income to "pay my fair share of the bills" which means half ; being a "merry maid" house cleaner, an interior decorator, a party planner and hostess, a cook, dishwasher, laundry woman, nurse, taxi driver and sexual partner. This would probably be the easiest and quickest way and maybe it would be better than living alone the rest of my life or trying to find someone else. I've basically become a "hermit" now anyway.