I know this couple who always act like everything's hunky dory when it's obvious everything is shit. Little things slip out in seething tones. He feeds on her vulnerabilities, she pretends to be cool to maintain his interest. His real self comes flowing out when she's not around. She's trying to force herself into the position of being a grounding point & never the two shall meet. Hanging with them is like hanging with strangers, falseness fills the air like a thick smoke and the conversation sits up around the shoulders rather than lightly in the heart or deep in the belly. They make decisions about their friends due to the emptiness of their discourse with them and feel they gumption to "parent" everybody. What a bore. Last night she handed me dialogue like it was a magic wand & I handed it right back exposed for the faerie tale creation that it was. Now I feel bad for all the time I wasted smiling in her face in an attempt to be polite. I should've long ago put out that curled up nose "get real" and we'd probably actually have become better friends. You never know with people with their self delusion all hanging out like that if you should really put a dent in that armour. It may be the only thing holding them up.