A little bit of "back story", because everyone but me and a few other people here are coming in at the end of Act III and wondering who the hell "Kathy" is and what her problem might be.
"Kathy" often gets sloppy when she's been drinking, and she often [span style="text-decoration: line-through;"]browses[/span] stumbles the web when she drinks. And that's usually at night, when the walls of her fabulously wonderful life begin to close in on her. That's when she realizes that she's come to the end of her personal road, and there's a "No Outlet" sign ahead. She's mostly friendless, stuck in what she herself has said is a "dreadful" marriage, living in a big, empty house. And that's when the bitterness and vitriol start to flow.
She could have had a very nice life with my friend, but she chose not to. That's fine, we all make choices and we all live with the results of those choices. But she won't let go and she refuses come to terms with the aftermath of her decision. Years later she's still unhappy with what her choices cost her and so she blames anyone and everyone but herself for the way things turned out. She blames Jack for not putting up with her lies and decietful behavior. She blames me for introducing Jack to a lovely young lady who was ready, willing, and able to start a life with him. She blames Jack's wife for being younger than her, pretty, and for being well-liked by all of us.
"Kathy" used to write me frequently, and was always "casually" inquiring about where Jack was, what he was doing, how he was doing, and who he was doing it with. "Kathy"was incensed by the fact that Jack didn't sit around pining away for months over their breakup, instead he went on with his life. Jack is like me in several respects, and one way is that we do things. We don't sit around thinking about doing things or talking about doing things, we just go do them.
So when I introduced Jack to one of my wife's friends and they hit it off, a few weeks later he flew with me to Cambodia and got engaged. "Kathy" was outraged over the fact that Jack was moving on with his life and not wasting any time doing so. And that's when "Kathy" made her true nature known. The snarky, hateful comments and put-downs started almost immediately and they just got worse and worse. For example: His wife was "too young". Her skin was "too nice". Jack looked "too happy". He got engaged "too fast". Etc etc etc. Like this was any of her f*cking business.
As part of my "adventure series" (lol), I told [a href="vny!://discoverseattle.net/cambodia/"]my story[/a] about [a href="vny!://discoverseattle.net/forums/index.php/topic,3388.0.html"]meeting my wife[/a] here. I also mentioned the part where [a href="vny!://discoverseattle.net/forums/index.php?topic=3388.msg126995#msg126995"]Jack flew with me to Cambodia and got engaged[/a], and "Kathy" has been obsessively monitoring this forum ever since, hungrily looking for any mention of him.
