This week I did something I had never done before. I pubished a post and then deleted it. The post itself was nothing threatening and I actually thought it was fine when I wrote it but my wife thought perhaps my choice of phrases could have been better. The topic is immaterial but it involved a short phone conversation I had with the mom of my kids' half sibling.
After I wrote the piece and my wife commented on it I decided to delete it for fear of creating the impression that any conversations we (the mom and I) may have prospectively are liable to be published in the form of a blog post. And I don't want her to feel threatened in any way. I actually like this woman very much as already know she has a great sense of humor and outlook on life from the little I / we really know about her.
How people meet and become friends is always a miracle to me. My wife and I come from different worlds and I wonder how, but for the grace of g-d, we were lucky enough to meet. I feel this woman also could become a real friend down the road as her family and ours get to know one another as the kids meet. So blogging posts on each and every meeting / discussion would not be appropriate no matter how tempting it is to document this process. Last thing I want to do is upset anybody endangering the kids from meeting their only known half sibling.
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Terminology request:
I am getting tired of writing "the mom of my kids' half sibling". Is there an anacronym (misp?) out there that has ben created for this purpose already? I don't want to use her real name and making up a pseudonym seems funny as readers will say "who is that?". Amazing how science also affects the creation of new words for purposes such as this.
I was trying to figure out what the letters in "misp" stood for and was up to Mom-??-sibling-parent. Then I realized you were questioning your spelling of "acronym"! Too funny!
ReplyDeleteHow about mother (or mom) of child's half sibling - mochs (pronounced mox). Also father (or dad) of child's half sibling - fochs (fox)or dochs (dox). Would you rather be a fox or a dox?
Mary
This is beginning to sound like a fox in socks with clocks on blocks. Dr. Suess must have had an evil streak to make parents read that book to their kids.
ReplyDeleteI think based on the the standard DI Dad terminology I'd have to be the Dox. I like the MOCHS term and pronounciation as Mox. Again very Suessian! Thanks.
Eric