Thank you all for you comments of support, which are much appreciated, I assure you. Some more reflections on Pat_B's questions about love. TOUGH LOVE It’s tough, loving you my love, for sometimes you’re as edgy and spiteful and mean as a junkyard bitch on a tether; all snarling teeth and gleaming claws, and it’s tough not to fight back at those times. I’m a word man, see, and I know words that flay like a Tsarist knout; words that scald and burn; napalm words that stick to your brain and won’t... Sign in to see full entry.