| Starting this week, Carolyn Hax publishes on a new schedule: columns on Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, with Nick Galifianakis illustrations rather than cartoons. Reader advice stays on Wednesday and the live chat on Friday. Dear Carolyn: My husband was the best man in his friend’s wedding overseas — 10-hour-plus flight — and since things have been very low risk for my pregnancy, I felt it was fine if he went, despite my being at 36 weeks. Everything was honestly fine and I was glad he went, even though I was bummed I couldn’t be there to celebrate. The last day, his friends convinced him to go bungee jumping. I am struggling to get over how mad it’s made me. I mean, he’s home now, and obviously he’s fine, but what the [heck]? I don’t want to keep him from having fun, but it just feels like, wasn’t going halfway across the world enough? Did he also have to jump off a bridge? To make matters worse, when I talked to him about it, he made a joke about how one of his friends — a woman I barely know — agreed to help raise our kid if he died. I’m not exactly sure why, but the joke made me 1,000 times more upset. He’s apologized and said he understands why I’m angry, but it’s just not making me less upset. Plus, now the friends are all posting videos of them jumping off the bridge. It’s infuriating. How do I let this go? — Over the Edge |
