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Originally Posted by guitarchick82
Lindsey and Stevie's relationship in general just makes me chuckle and scratch my head.  Their relationship is certainly very complicated. I mean, it's been how many years now since they broke up? Thirty-six? And Stevie wasn't Lindsey's longest-term girlfriend either. You'd think that by now they'd be at a good enough place where they could just give straight-forward answers like "Yes, we are good friends now" instead of "Ehh, maybe?" |
Well, I think it's a silly question in a way. I chuckled about it too though, the way bombaysaffires described it and how he was cut off, after one word. That struck me as funny.
But the question itself . . . It's like asking someone if they love their sister.
Sure you're going to love them. He loves John. I'm not saying he loves Stevie in the same way, but after that much time has passed, of course, you're going to love them to a certain extent. All that shared history. That person is a part of you, if not in the lovey dovey sense, then in the memory sense. When someone is gone who experienced and understood what you did, you lose a chunk of yourself and your validation. I mean, if a tree falls in the forest and there's no one there to remember it falling
with you, did it really fall?
You know a 31 year old Buzzfeed writer, Michael Hastings, crashed his car into a tree and died this week and one of the greatest remarks about him came from a rival journalist who said something like he had a hard time describing to his wife why the death hit him so hard, because he didn't much like Michael and Michael didn't like him. But the reason he didn't like him was because he was in your face, intense and competitive and believed in his craft. I understood what he was saying. You miss a person like that when they're gone, even if they really annoyed you when they were there.
I don't know why you'd even
think to ask a guy who has known a woman since 1965 and worked side by side with her for many of the years since then if he loves her.