[Yak] Leaving the party while the going's good

[Andy Heath]

Lynette Chiang wrote:
> Being out in the BF community I get to hear it all. Floyd's case is the 
> third one I have encountered this this year where I've been told the 
> partner is given an ultimatum - because if they get hurt they cannot 
> look after the other partner. This made me, for the first time, realize 
> that being single is not such a bad thing. On one hand it is wonderful 
> to have someone by your side, for good times and bad. Yet, I would 
> really hate to have it come to the point of ultimatums. Of course, we 
> all have to make compromises. But ... to extinguish the fire in 
> someone's spirit. To have someone say, stop what jazzes you (and let's 
> face it, bike riding is not exactly hire wire acrobatics without a net 
> or base jumping or human pyrotechnics), or I am going to leave/commit 
> hari kari/beat you over the head with a long stick. One person I know 
> cannot move outside his own zipcode without his ex-wife threatening to 

My ex-wife was not a cyclist.
Nuff said.

andy