Wandering Along the Path: Right Speech

The Weather is warmer and not windy today, so my friend and I had a nicer walk than yesterday afternoon. Even the coffee tasted better. We often discuss relationship issues, and find that our complaints are quite similar, though she is a widow and has had her partner living with her in her house only for the last ten years. I am coming up on 48 years of marriage with my husband, and we raised four kids together; my two from my first marriage and our two between us. My friend has two grown kids, and her partner has three grown kids, and they've never lived as a blended family. Yet the fact that we are women and they are men slots us in similar situations, universal you might say. Both of them are not comfortable with feelings and expressing feelings and act cornered if we try to described ours. But they are good guys at heart, and we only grumble to let off steam. Most of my friends are widows or unpartnered, so I have limited resources to talk about men. In my women's group, all but two of us are widows, and actually, my first husband is dead as well. I guess we're getting to that age, but these women lost their husbands in their forties. They raised their kids alone from ages around 10 and 13. They are warriors, for certain.