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Forget your boss, protect the child
DEAR MISS LONELYHEARTS: I'm deeply in love with an inappropriate person. He is the single father of the tiny boy I babysit. I doubt he's in love with me, but I go to sleep every night dreaming of him. I have fantasized everything -- the courtship, the wedding, the marriage and the three of us happy together. He has a bad girlfriend. I have seen how she behaves towards his son when he's not looking -- cold and nasty if he does something she doesn't like. She uses a scary tone of voice on him. Should I tell on her? I think I should at least do it for the little boy, but I feel guilty because I know it will benefit me also. He wonders why the little guy cries when he knows his dad is going out of the room and the girlfriend is left behind. Help! -- The Nanny, Winnipeg
Dear Nanny: Your boss may know you have a crush on him and be ignoring it. These feelings tend to have a tendency to show. If you try to tell him his girlfriend is nasty to the child when he's not there, he might think it's your jealousy talking. And, people who are in love often turn on the person who says something bad about their lover. You really only have only one choice -- tape her being nasty to the boy and say, "You need to hear how this lady speaks to your child when you're not around." Quickly snap on the tape so he has to listen. Depending on his reaction, he may break it off with her, or settle his anger on you and fire you. But you owe it to the child to try to protect him because he can't speak for himself. Don't expect anything romantic out of this, as this man is your employer and going after staff is sexual harassment, and illegal.
Dear Miss Lonelyhearts: I just came back from a holiday and I'm missing this woman I met there. She is wealthy and lives in a winter home in Mexico. She and I had a beautiful thing for two weeks and I thought we were just "having fun" until I had to leave her. We both shed tears. Unfortunately she has an older husband -- the source of her lifestyle and her money -- and she had to prepare for him coming down to the condo for the next two months. I got out of there in the nick of time. I have emailed her a dozen times, no reply. I thought she cared. What do you think has happened? -- Completely Confused, Fort Garry
Dear Confused: She may have cared, but she has a lot to lose if she gets caught on the computer answering mail from you. She knows where you live and what your email is. She will write you if she wants to, but you may just have been a wonderful two-week fling. Can you handle that? You may be someone she will think about with a smile for a long time. Let that be enough for you, too, and stop fretting.
Questions or comments? Write Miss Lonelyhearts c/o Winnipeg Free Press 1355 Mountain Ave. Wpg R2X 3B6 or email lovecoach@hotmail.com
Republished from the Winnipeg Free Press print edition May 22, 2012 D3
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