Hola boys! I've been away from 2+2 for a while because real life got super busy. I'm still with Mexican Johnny Depp though - its getting close to a year now. It was an interesting summer. He basically decided he wanted everybody to know about us. All the responses were super positive. I think he was most nervous about his Mom, who is a conservative, Catholic, Mexican woman, but when he told her about us she said "If she loves you, then I love her", which is about the best response we could have hoped for. His two kids like me too, mainly because I play Fortnite with them. I think his friends were initially a bit surprised and had questions for him, but they came around pretty quickly.
The funniest is that we had a double date with his ex-wife and her new boyfriend. It was a very "Bay Area" thing of us to do. His ex and I are in very similar STEM fields - MJD obviously has a type. Her first reaction to me (even though she knew I was in STEM) was definitely a kind of "look at my ex-husband with his new bimbo" and to be honest, I kind of played along with it. But then she started bragging about this big grant she'd just heard she'd got (like she heard immediately before dinner) and she turns to me and says something pretty condescending like "do you have these grants in your field?", and I was able to say, "Yeah...I've got three of them". After that, she was a bit less condescending
. MJD told me that she later described me as a Chingona, which literally means ****er I think, but which he assured me meant "badass". Either way - it was the kind of impression I wanted to leave on an ex-wife!
So, yeah, I'm really in love, and I guess this is my first serious relationship since my divorce. There are still occasions when I get bemused by my new gender role. As an example, we went up to Tahoe over Labor day weekend, and I wanted to go in my car - its a muscle car, versus his minivan. But I realized I couldn't drive without emasculating him, especially as I'd refused to go in his car. I've never let someone else drive my car, so it was weird handing him the keys, but I gotta say that I got used to it pretty quickly, especially when I could drink at dinner without worrying about driving home
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So has anything exciting happened in the last couple of thousand posts?