Another horrible season in store for couple
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This article was published 28/05/2016 (3462 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
Dear Miss Lonelyhearts: Here comes what I call horrible season, my boyfriend’s favourite time of the year. He’s a camper. I hate blown-up mattresses and biting my hands so the neighbours don’t hear through the thin tent walls. I would like to get a small trailer, but he’s a former boy scout who grew up in the country and that would be city boy stuff. I’m also deathly afraid of ticks and I attract lots of mosquitoes, the same ones that avoid him. I told him him yesterday that half the summer was for me and I’m only going camping with him every second week. He was crushed. “But I need you with me!” he whined, like a little kid.
Then he tried every method of coercing me he could think of. I remained firm after last year’s experiences. He said, “I wish you’d told me earlier so I could have made some other plans.” I think he was hinting at finding another girlfriend. Maybe he should do that! What do you think? Can something as dumb and unimportant as camping break up a couple? Maybe we’re not really in love if he wants to call in a replacement camper babe. Before I hit the roof and stay there, what do you think of this?
— Hate Camping, Mad at Him, St. Vital
Dear Hate Camping, Mad at Him: Let this simmer down for a week or two. At least go camping once this season. On a deeper note, you need to think hard if this is the man you want to marry, have babies with and make a whole life. Love isn’t enough. You need to be compatible. If he is a dedicated camper and this is going to mean trouble every summer, maybe he does need to find an outdoorsy camping mate and you need to find a city boy who’s more like you and says “Ewww” to camping. “Let’s get a hotel.”
Please send your questions and comments to lovecoach@hotmail.com or Miss Lonelyhearts c/o the Winnipeg Free Press, 1355 Mountain Ave., Winnipeg, MB, R2X 3B6
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