An old friend is going off the reservation - multiple affairs on the sly which I cannot respect (my Dad was a bit of a womaniser and it was ugly back then too). Increasingly unreliable, ever changing facts about time off, overcompensating by now being the ultimate family man. Within a small circle, it has def raised a few eyebrows
People have to learn from their own errors. You can only say so much without degrading yourself too. Acute stress plays a part but not rinsing your way through various clinicians half your age. Find this aspect slightly gross because his kids aren‘t far below this age cohort and what would they think? Have a feeling a chemical romance may be live too, old intuition kicking in
An intervention is imminent but who needs that? Sometimes it’s entirely reasonable to say “get a fuckin grip” to retain any dignity of boundaries and walk away so they can recalibrate their faltering value system