Astronaut Love
As a comedian once said, “What’s the matter with you?” Astronaut Lisa Nowak, a forty-three-year-old married mother of three tries to kidnap and murder the thirty-year-old girlfriend of another (male) astronaut. “What’s the matter with you?”
As a forty-something year old husband and father, I don’t get it. You have the world! You have a great career. You have, presumably, a great family. What more could you want?
Your fellow co-worker is a forty-something man. I haven’t read if he is married with children, but let’s presume he isn’t. “What’s the matter with you?” You already have a husband and children!! Leave the poor man alone!
You told police that your relationship with the fellow astronaut was “more than a working relationship and less than a romantic relationship.” That’s the way it should be.
If he wants to go off with some thirty-year-old woman, that’s, presumably, his choice. Again, presuming he has no wife and children of his own.
This is worth talking about because my impression of the NASA community was that these people were incredibly intelligent. They were high achievers who were organized, controlled and set high goals for themselves.
Apparently, behavior cannot be judged by jobs, hobbies or religious affiliations.
This situation reminds me of a high school cat fight. Actually, it is a little more than a cat fight when you bring up the pepper spray and the carbon-dioxide powered BB pistol. Not to mention the steel mallet, folding knife with the four-inch blade and the garbage bags. Someone was planning to do more than fight.
How many of these do we have to read about before people remember that these always turn out badly. No one wins in a three way relationship. In this case, the male co-worker could be as much to blame as Nowak. If he saw any signs of interest, he should have shut things down immediately.
My daughter mentioned last night there were two fights at her school yesterday. Two girls fought about a young fellow. Two boys fought over a girl. Which one of these six will turn up in the newspaper twenty-years from now? Will they learn their lessons now, or will this pattern follow?
Luckily, I don’t have to worry. I am very much in love with my wife. I have wonderful children. There is nothing (and no one) more I need in life. So when I read a tragic story like this, I can only think of one question: What is the matter with you?
As a forty-something year old husband and father, I don’t get it. You have the world! You have a great career. You have, presumably, a great family. What more could you want?
Your fellow co-worker is a forty-something man. I haven’t read if he is married with children, but let’s presume he isn’t. “What’s the matter with you?” You already have a husband and children!! Leave the poor man alone!
You told police that your relationship with the fellow astronaut was “more than a working relationship and less than a romantic relationship.” That’s the way it should be.
If he wants to go off with some thirty-year-old woman, that’s, presumably, his choice. Again, presuming he has no wife and children of his own.
This is worth talking about because my impression of the NASA community was that these people were incredibly intelligent. They were high achievers who were organized, controlled and set high goals for themselves.
Apparently, behavior cannot be judged by jobs, hobbies or religious affiliations.
This situation reminds me of a high school cat fight. Actually, it is a little more than a cat fight when you bring up the pepper spray and the carbon-dioxide powered BB pistol. Not to mention the steel mallet, folding knife with the four-inch blade and the garbage bags. Someone was planning to do more than fight.
How many of these do we have to read about before people remember that these always turn out badly. No one wins in a three way relationship. In this case, the male co-worker could be as much to blame as Nowak. If he saw any signs of interest, he should have shut things down immediately.
My daughter mentioned last night there were two fights at her school yesterday. Two girls fought about a young fellow. Two boys fought over a girl. Which one of these six will turn up in the newspaper twenty-years from now? Will they learn their lessons now, or will this pattern follow?
Luckily, I don’t have to worry. I am very much in love with my wife. I have wonderful children. There is nothing (and no one) more I need in life. So when I read a tragic story like this, I can only think of one question: What is the matter with you?
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