I've been talking a bit to a new guy who's been showing up daily. This guy has got Game. You know the kind of person? Handsome, fit, wealthy, owns his own real estate brokerage firm, totally confident in his own person? A no fear kind of guy, a guy strutting the strut. Married with a five year old daughter he dotes on. Just brimming with confidence and self-assurance. (Ed. Note: This, as we know, guarantees almost nothing. He drinks alcoholically and is attending meetings daily as a prerequisite for keeping his license after a recent DWI. Whatever gets you here, right?) Frankly, there's so much swagger in his persona that I'm always surprised when he shows up again. I'm curious as to what his back story is. What got bad enough?
The one area of his life that seems to trouble him is his marriage. He implies that his wife is shut down, uncommunicative, with working and being a mom taking up all of her energy and time, and this state of his marriage has him concerned. I can only imagine the damage incurred living with an alcoholic exuding that kind of confidence. I went to a high school that had a lot of rich kids and there were some classmates who were total idiots but insulated from their idiocy by their family's money, swaggering through life blithely, unaware or unconcerned that they were idiots. I hope that he can step back and see his part in this marriage, to see that maybe the problems started with him.
I'm not All In on this dude, yet. I like him but I don't trust him.
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