Friday Night Delight

It is wonderful. My Mosey came home early from his walk about Fontana. It is good having him home. What it is about being in a relationship that you need your breaks but once you've got one you don't want one anymore?

Mosey's walk about was ended abruptly by severe storms. I wasn't worried about my hikery man because he is well experienced with nature, was walking with two other hikery friends, and was prepared for inclement weather. Sad thing is Mosey's offspring felt I should go and retrieve him from his big adventure.

Question is - how do you find someone in the Smokey Mountains that doesn't have a lojack or any other kind of tracking device? And how would my mature husband feel if I went running after him dragging him home behind me? And what would be the odd of me being able to even know where he's at? Sure I have his starting and ending locations, but there's a great deal of space in between. And what about his ego - I mean he was hiking with two other gentleman friends. What would they think of him or his neurotic wife?

Better question is this - what are his offspring thinking about me to make demands that I go and retrieve their father from what he wants to do? And what does this show of their confidence in him?

This man raised his family. He used to go away and work for weeks on end away from them. He's been hiking for years and was in Viet Nam during the conflict. He saw battle, took lives, gave lives. He goes on hiking trips locally alone and is capable in many ways.

So why when he goes on an extended hike do his children feel that he needs to be rescued? And how can they demand that his new wife grant their wishes? What kind of respect do they have for me to make those kinds of demands? And how am I supposed to respond? Do I react in anger, conform to their wishes or just ignore them?

I do exactly what I did today. I confirm that their father is quite capable, I explain the circumstances involved with trying to find him, I reassure that he is not alone, and I ask how they would want me to proceed.

But I am still confused as to why grown children feel that the man who raised them, is still quite competent and in full faculty of his senses would feel that he needs rescuing and that I am incapable of making sound decisions as to his welfare.

Only time will tell.