OK, a co-worker brought this up for my opinion this morning. They are a good friend also battling feelings for a clueless, addicted, sociopathic man. This person was in a long distance relationship with someone who abused drugs, a person with a lot of money who rarely visited, who had many sexual identity issues, yadda yadda. Suffice to say my friend adored this man despite a whole lotta red flags. They finally broke things off several months ago, mid-summer I believe, and my friend has done a good job of staying OUT of touch, even electing not to respond to a birthday card last month.

So today the friend gets a Christmas card that they showed to me. The card was pretty, foiled, nice envelope, until you opened it and the personal message was on a label stucked at the end of the card. My friend then peeled the label back and said, "Look." There in gold foiled writing was: YOUR PERSONAL OR BUSINESS IMPRINT HERE. Yep, the bastard was so cheap they sent a free card. I validated my friend's reaction by being just as appalled as they were.

I mean, C'Mon! Does anyone else find this creepy, disgusting and completely heartless? My friend had the most vulnerable, wounded look on their face. They came to me because they knew I'd relate (I'd shared much of my Denver trauma with them.)

What are relationships coming to? Do people have no sense of decency anymore? My friend would have been better off with no card at all! It's like these losers need a fix and they seek out the ones they knew loved them above all others. It isn't that they want to work on the relationships, or change, or that they even want the person at all. They just have to dangle some carrot for their own self gratification.

I've used the male gender here, because it was a guy who did this, but I'm sure anyone could be guilty of such flagrant disrespect. Geesh.