…to embarrass Grrrrr at dinner.
(see previous entry if you don’t know what I’m talking about).
So. We were having a wonderful time. Grrrrr’s colleague is an engineering type who is high up in his company, and is really personable. We were all laughing and talking about Grrrr’s and my upcoming wedding and then talking about Colleague’s marriage of 30 years.
So I asked how Colleague and his wife met, and he answered with, “Well, we met [blah, blah, blah],and I was really interested in her friend at first….”
And Grrrrrr chimes in with, “Yeah, isn’t that always the case?”
So of course, I piped in with, “And which one of my friends were you interested in? My best friend?”
And Grrrrr says, “Of course not because [Best Bud] is crazy.”
(which, okay, wow. I may have seemed a bit jealous at the time, but it hurt my feelings when he called my best friend crazy. I just wanted to play the whole thing off, but it seemed like I needed to say something to fill up the space after he told me Best Bud is crazy)
So I was aggrivated and asked, “So which one of my friends was it, because you just said that it’s always the case that you are interested in the friend first.”
And Grrrr said, “Stop busting my chops.”
So I did.
And I let them go on with the conversation as it shifted and changed, and Colleague asked me more questions about my work, and I talked and talked and talked (a lot)…we were having a great time!
Or so I thought.
Whed Grrrrrr came back from dropping off Colleague, I asked him what was wrong (I guess that’s a big NO-NO).
So he called me jealous and pouty and insecure. And asked me why I’ve been like that lately? And what’s my PROBLEM??? And why can’t I be MYSELF anymore? And that he’s not going to have any more colleagues over because I embarrass him with my jealousy and insecurity!!
And I need to go “talk to someone” because our relationship is disintegrating. And I asked him if he’d be a partner and go with me he told me that I needed to go for a while first because it’s obviously MY problem.
And now. Well hell yeah. Sure enough I feel jealous and insecure and uptight.
Yippee.
*edit* Yes, we WERE going to counseling before, but stopped because we couldn’t fit it into our schedules and didn’t feel like we were making any progress with this one guy. I’m working on scheduling our prenuptual planning sessions with a minister, which he agrees to do, but the whole counseling thing–that’s my issue now, not his.
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